Anaphalis leptophylla (DC.) 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 : 200

Anaphalis leptophylla (DC.) DC.

In Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 6: 273 ( De Candolle 1838). — Basionym: Helichrysum leptophyllum DC. in Wight, Contributions to the Botany of India: 20 ( De Candolle 1834) ( Fig. 2A ).

TYPE CITATION. — “Neelgherry, Wight cat. n. 1467 ”.

LECTOTYPE (HERE DESIGNATED). — India. Neelgherries, s.d., Wight cat. n. 1467 (lecto-, E [ E00385827 image]! ; isolecto-, E [ E00385828 image]!; E [ E00385829 image]!; K [ K000899022 image]!; K [ K000899023 image]!; P [ P01816371 image]!).

RESIDUAL SYNTYPE. — India. Tamil Nadu, Neeilgherries (Nilgiri District), s.d., Wight s.n. (syn-, MH [ MH00007084 ]!).

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

REMARKS

Helichrysum leptophyllum De Candolle (1834) was formally described based on the collections from Neelgherry by Wight cat.n. 1467. De Candolle (1838) transferred Helichrysum leptophyllum to the genus Anaphalis DC and named it as Anaphalis leptophylla (DC.) DC. Seven herbarium specimens were traced from four different herbaria, which includes three sheets from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Herbarium (E) (E00385827, E00385828, E00385829), two sheets from K (K000899022, K000899023), one sheet from the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (P) (P01816371) and one sheet from MH (MH00007084). Among these, the specimen E00385827 is better preserved and more complete, which is designated here as the lectotype.

Figures

FIG. 2. — A, Isolectotype of Helichrysum leptophyllum DC. (K000899022); B, lectotype of Gnaphalium marcescens Wight (MH00007084), © Madras Herbarium, Coimbatore; C, lectotype of Anaphalis meeboldii W.W.Sm. (CAL0000016862), © Central National Herbarium, Howrah; D, isolectotype of Gnaphalium neelgherryanum DC. (K000899041); A, D, © The board of trustess of Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.