Anaphalis oblonga DC.

Murugan, Perumal, Murugan, Chidambaram & Karthigeyan, Kaliyamurthy, 2021, Typification of twelve names in the genus Anaphalis DC. (Asteraceae), Adansonia (3) 43 (17), pp. 197-204 : 202

Anaphalis oblonga DC.

In the Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 6: 274 ( De Candolle 1838) ( Fig. 3A ).

TYPE CITATION. — “Neelgerry Indiae Orient. by Leschenault ”.

LECTOTYPE (HERE DESIGNATED). — India. Tamil Nadu, Neelgerry, s.d., Leschenault 297 (lecto-, P [ P01816380 image]! ; isolecto-, G ( G00322867 image]!; P [ P01816381 image]!).

RESIDUAL SYNTYPE. — India. Tamil Nadu, Neilgherries, s.d., Leschenault s.n. (syn-, P[ P01816382 image]!).

DISTRIBUTION. — India (Kerala and Tamil Nadu), endemic.

REMARKS

De Candolle (1838) cited the specimens collected from Neelgerry by Leschenault in the protologue while describing. We have traced four specimens, three at P (P01816380, P01816381, P01816382) and one at De Candolle Herbarium (G00322867). Of these, the specimen P01816380 which is better preserved is designated here as the lectotype of A. oblonga .

Figures

FIG. 3. — A, Lectotype of Anaphalis oblonga DC. (P01816380), © Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris; B, lectotype of Gnaphalium subdecurrens DC. (E00528784); C, lectotype of Anaphalis travancorica W.W.Sm. (CAL0000016858), © Central National Herbarium,Howrah; D, lectotype of Gnaphalium wightianum DC. (E00414229); B, D, © The board of trustees of Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh.