Adiantum menglianense Y.Y.Qian, Acta. Bot. Austro Sin.

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Adiantum menglianense Y.Y.Qian, Acta. Bot. Austro Sin. 8: 37. 1992.

Type:— CHINA. Yunnan: Menglian , 900–1400 m, 23 December 1984, Qian 801 (lectotype:HITBC-81381!, here designated; isolectotypes:

HITBC-81380!, HITBC-109908!). Chinese name:—ÃDZfflDzů

In the protologue of Adiantum menglianense ( Qian 1992) , the Qian 801 collection conserved in Simao Forest Bureau ( SMAO) was designated as holotype.The type material should now be stored in the herbarium of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden ( HITBC) since all collections of SMAO were transferred to HITBC in 2005 (http://www. cvh.ac.cn/her/ HITBC, accessed 8 Nov 2015). At HITBC, however, we found altogether three sheets of Qian 801, including two (HITBC-81380 and HITBC-81381) marked presumably by Qian as “ holotypus ” and one more duplicate (HITBC-109908) without any type label. Since there is no clear indication that HITBC-81380 and HITBC-81381 sheets belong to a single gathering, both sheets should be corrected as syntypes in accordance with Art 8.3, Art 9.5 and Art 40 Note 1 of the Melbourne Code (McNeill et al. 2011), and the HITBC-109908 sheet is then treated as another syntype. A lectotype is subsequently designated based on Art 9.2 and Art 9.12, and HITBC-81381 is here chosen since the gathering on this sheet contains more complete sterile and fertile fronds among the syntypes.