taxonID	type	description	language	source
038C6F4BFFD0FFAD9AD800FEB0C9FEA3.taxon	description	Flowering & fruiting: August to January. Habitat: Grows along streams and slopes in moist places in hilly regions, locally common. Distribution: China, India, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. Etymology: Specific epithet “ puellarum ” = puella = girl. Little girls in East Asia make necklaces from the utricles (Clifford & Bostock, 2007). Specimens examined: INDIA, Sikkim, Brip, 1905, Riba 1297 (CAL); Indira bypass, Upper Sichey, N 27 ° 20 ' 4.84 ", E 88 ° 36 ' 46.21 ", 18.12.2021, N. A. Madhav 495 (BSI). MYANMAR, Upper Burma, Myanmar Hill, Maymayo, November 1838, Badal Khan 271 (CAL, K). CHINA, Hubei (Hupeh), March 1889, Dr. Aug. Henry 71717 (CAL). Notes: Coix lacryma-jobi var. puellarum can be easily identified from other varieties by its perennial habit and usually bluish-white, globose to discoid utricle (utricles wider without a beak). Typification: Balansa described Coix puellarum in 1890 from French Indo-China in his catalogue of family Poaceae from the French Indo-Chinese region in which Tonkin in one province. Camus and Camus (1922) subsequently reduced this species as a variety of C. lacryma-jobi, as var. puellarum. Balansa (l. c.), however, did not indicate any specimen number or particular location in the protologue. While searching the original material of Coix lacryma-jobi var. puellarum, we located specimens collected by Balansa having three sheets of single gatherings as well as annotations with his handwriting and accession no. 1693 at P, K and L (P 00740696, K 000290013, L 0329790 digital images!). All these specimens were from the Tonkin region where Balansa worked. When they were compared with the protologue, all perfectly match with the original description and have a collection date prior to the publication of the flora of French Indo-China. Therefore, in accordance with Article 9.3 of ICN (Turland et al., 2018), one of the specimens with Balansa’s annotation from Tonkin, i. e., L 0329790, is designated here as the lectotype as it has all the floral parts in comparison with the specimens deposited at P and K. Also, the other specimens are duplicates of the designated lectotype and therefore the specimens from P and K are isolectotypes.	en	N. A., Madhav, Gosavi, K. V. C., It, Vietnam., Pradesh, Arunachal (2022): Recollection and lectotypification of Coix laCRyMa-jobi var. PUEllaRUM (Poaceae) in India. Rheedea 32 (3): 196-200, DOI: 10.22244/rheedea.2022.32.03.04, URL: https://doi.org/10.22244/rheedea.2022.32.03.04
