taxonID	type	description	language	source
03C587A07E68CF6AFD1EFD7BFB776794.taxon	description	Flowering & fruiting: Flowering from July to September and fruiting from August to October. Habitat: Grows on mossy rocks in moist tropical and wet montane temperate forests at an elevation ranging from 900 to 2400 m. Distribution: Bhutan, Nepal, India (Fig. 3). Specimens examined: INDIA, Arunachal Pradesh, Tawang district, Jung to Tawang, N 27 ̊ 34 ' 51.456 '', E 91 ̊ 58 ' 26.148 '', 2148 m, 13.09.2019, A. S. Kanthraj 321064; Sera Village way to Lumla, N 27 ̊ 34 ' 3.36 '', E 91 ̊ 52 ' 10.2 '', 2373 m, 13.09.2019, A. S. Kanthraj 321065 (LWG); West Kameng district, Dirang MTB node, Sapper Army Camp, N 27 ̊ 23 ' 22.632 '', E 92 ̊ 11 ' 43.368 '', 1728 m, 07.09.2018, A. S. Kanthraj 319872; Dirang to Sella Pass, 5 km before Nyukmadung War Memorial, N 27 ̊ 23 ' 37.968 '', E 92 ̊ 9 ' 30.42 '', 1836 m, 07.09.2018, A. S. Kanthraj 319873; Mohankem Army Camp, N 27 ̊ 25 ' 14.16 '', E 92 ̊ 7 ' 27.12 '', 2112 m, 07.09.2018, A. S. Kanthraj 319874 (LWG). Notes: When Don (1825) originally described D. cinereus in his ‘ Prodromus Florae Nepalensis ’, he based it on an unnumbered collection attributed to “ Wallich, Nepal ”. Don’s Prodromus was based on specimens from Nepal sent to Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761 – 1842) by Francis Buchanan- Hamilton (1762 – 1829) and Nathaniel Wallich (1786 – 1854) in 1818 and 1819 (Stearn, 1945; Weber et al., 2000). Wallich also had suggested several manuscript names for his Nepal specimens distributed to several herbaria, including the Lambert herbarium. Don had adopted some of these Wallichian names, but not all, in his Prodromus. After Lambert’s death in 1842, his herbarium was sold in parts to many European institutions (Miller, 1970). Wallich’s Nepal plants in Lambert herbarium, including the types of Don’s Prodromus are now in BM, duplicates in LINN (in Smith’s herbarium), now transferred to K, and other material is in BR, P-JU and CGE (Stafleu & Cowan, 1988). Our search for the original material associated with D. cinereus resulted in locating two Wallichian sheets in BM (BM 000521817 and BM 000948600). Both sheets were part of the Lambert herbarium acquired in 1842 and were determined and stored as D. cinereus in BM (Ranee Prakash, pers. comm.). The sheet, BM 000521817, contains eight fragments, with three flowering specimens mounted in the upper half, and five fragments (in vegetative and flowering stages) in the lower half. The sheet carries the labels, “ INDIA WALLICH ” (in print) and “ Didymocarpus obtusa ” (in hand), below the upper row of specimens, and “ Didymocarpus cinerea D. Don ” (in Don’s own handwriting) at the right hand bottom of the lower row of specimens. It seems that the label INDIA, instead of NEPAL, might have been wrongly printed on the sheet. The other sheet (BM 000948600) bears eight fragments in flowering and fruiting stages. The label at the lower bottom on the left hand side of the sheet shows: “ Didymocarpus obtusa Wall., Nepal 1819, Wallich ”, and C. B. Clarke’s annotation “ D. cinerea D. Donis same as D. obtusa Wall. ” on the right hand side. Both sheets represent true D. cinereus and match perfectly with Don’s original description. Among the two, BM 000521817, which bears Don’s original annotation, is designated here as the lectotype for D. cinereus. The occurrence of D. cinereus in India has long been disputed. The confusion began with Clarke’s (1874) misinterpretation of some of the Sikkim Himalayan specimens as ‘ D. obtusa DC. ’ [= D. obtusus Wall. ex R. Br.], now an avowed synonym of D. cinereus. Hilliard and Burtt (1995) segregated the Sikkim Himalayan elements of Clarke (1874) into a new species, D. triplotrichus Hilliard, very closely allied to D. cinereus but distinct from it primarily in the indumentum and floral characters (Table 1). Mukherjee and Parai (1995), Mukherjee et al. (2008) and Roy (2017) overlooked the above and erroneously reported the occurrence of D. cinereus for the gesneriaceous flora of the eastern Himalaya of India. These reports not only misinterpreted Clarke’s (1874) description and illustration of D. obtusus (now D. triplotrichus Hilliard) as D. cinereus, but also included an exsiccata of misidentified, misinterpreted or missing specimens. Mukherjee and Parai (1995) and Mukherjee et al. (2008) cited a solitary specimen from Sikkim [Great Rangeet, 1200 m, YHB 974 (CAL)] under D. cinereus. This specimen is not traceable either in CAL (V. P. Prasad, pers. comm.) or any other herbaria. Roy (2017) included D. cinereus based on two specimens from Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling area of West Bengal: i) Mrs Prabha & Miss Ramola 6343, and ii) G. King s. n. As evident from the herbarium label, the first specimen was collected from Nagarkot, a place in Nepal on 29 August 1966 (CAL, accession number 552006). Another specimen with the same collection number is also available in BM (BM 000832926). Both the specimens represent the true D. cinereus. However, Roy (2017) wrongly cited the place of collection of Mrs. Prabha & Miss Ramola 6343 as ‘ Nagrakot- Jalpaiguri (West Bengal) ’ and the date of collection as ' 23.4.14 '. Roy (2017) cited the second specimen under D. cinereus with the following collection data: ‘ Pankabaree-Darjeeling, 2500 ft, 30.8.1877, G. King s. n. (CAL) ’. In CAL there is no such specimen of G. King s. n. collected in 1877. King’s specimen that matches with the collection data given in Roy (2017) is G. King 4043 (CAL, accession number 332123), which shows short petiolate leaves not overtopping the inflorescence, and belongs to D. triplotrichus, but not D. cinereus. Nevertheless, Roy (2017) misidentified G. King 4043 and included it under D. andersonii C. B. Clarke, a species distinguishable from D. triplotrichus and D. cinereus by its purplish connate bracts concealing the pedicels and shorter sessile capsules with an acute tip. Moreover, Roy (2017) reproduced Clarke’s (1874) illustration (t. 61) under D. cinereus, which also indicated that she was probably confused with the actual identities of D. triplotrichus and D. cinereus. Interestingly, Sinha and Datta (2016) did not include D. cinereus in their taxonomic account on the Gesneriaceae of North East India. D. cinereus thus remained elusive until this new report of the species from the Eastern Himalaya of India.	en	S., Pandey, A. S., Kanthraj, T. S., Rana, Nair, K. N. (2020): Notes on a new geographic record, recollection and lectotypification of some Indian Didymocarpus (Gesneriaceae). Rheedea 30 (1): 165-175, DOI: 10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.01.11, URL: https://doi.org/10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.01.11
03C587A07E6CCF67FD1EFC10FF7463DE.taxon	description	Bracts broadly ovate, 3 – 6 × 4 – 7 mm, green, strigose, dotted with yellow sessile glands on both surfaces, eglandular and glandular hairy outside, glabrous inside. Calyx campanulate, 4 – 6 mm long, 5 - lobed, purplish-brown often with green tinge, sparsely glandular hairy with yellow sessile globose glands outside, glabrous inside; tube c. 4 mm long; lobes triangular, c. 1.5 mm long, subacute to obtuse. Corolla c. 5 cm long, funnelform, purple, glabrous; tube c. 3 cm long; limb bilabiate, posterior lip (upper) 2 - lobed, rounded, c. 6 × 8 mm, anterior lip (lower) 3 - lobed, ovate-rounded, c. 8 × 10 mm, without prominent striations on lobes, with mild white striations on the throat. Fertile stamens 2, inserted above the middle of corolla tube, enantiostylous, stamens and style deflected reciprocally towards left or right side away from each other; filaments slender, c. 1 cm long, whitish, glabrous; anthers oblong, c. 3 mm long, coherent, creamy, glabrous, with a brownish patch and a few glandular hairs near connectives; staminodes 3, reduced to minute filaments of unequal length, c. 3 mm long, whitish, glabrous. Disc cupular, c. 1 mm high, pale green, glabrous. Ovary cylindrical, slightly narrowed towards base, c. 25 × 1 mm, green, glabrous; style c. 2 mm long, green, glabrous; stigma capitate, concave, whitish, papillose. Capsules linear, erect, c. 5 × 0.2 cm, brown, glabrous, stipitate, stipe 1 – 1.5 cm long. Seeds numerous, unappendaged, ellipsoid-oblong, 0.2 – 0.4 × 0.1 – 0.2 mm, testa reticulate. Flowering & fruiting: Flowering from July to September and fruiting from August to October. Habitat: Grows on moist mossy rocks on mountain slopes in tropical moist deciduous forests between 950 and 1065 m elevation. Distribution: India (Eastern Himalaya), endemic (Fig. 3). Specimens examined: INDIA, West Bengal, Darjeeling district, above Pankhabari, 2500 ft, 30.08.1877, G. King 4043 (CAL [Acc. no. 332123]); Between Kurseong and Pankhabari, 30.08.1857, T. Thomson s. n. (CAL [Acc. no. 332130]); Makaibari to Pankhabari Road, 1 km after Makaibari, N 26 ̊ 51 ' 8.28 '', E 88 ̊ 15 ' 33.12 '', 1065 m, 11.08.2018, A. S. Kanthraj 319846; Makaibari to Pankhabari Road, 3 km before Pankhabari, N 26 ̊ 50 ' 57.48 '', E 88 ̊ 15 ' 47.16 '', 950 m, 11.08.2018, A. S. Kanthraj 319847 (LWG); Pankhabari, 10.1868, S. Kurz s. n. (CAL [Acc. no. 332131]); Pankhabari, 2500 ft, s. d., s. coll. s. n. (CAL [Acc. no. 332121]); s. loc., 1878, G. King s. n. (CAL [Acc. nos. 332125, 332126]); s. loc., s. d., s. coll. s. n. (CAL [Acc. nos. 332132, 332133]). Notes: Hilliard and Burtt (1995) originally described D. triplotrichus, based on specimens collected by J. S. Gamble from Pankhabari in Darjeeling of West Bengal state (previously in Sikkim) in August 1880. Besides the types, seven more sheets of D. triplotrichus were located in CAL. Of these, four sheets contained specimens collected in and around Pankhabari, by Thomas Thomson in 1857, Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz in 1868, George King in 1877 & 1878, and the fifth one by an unknown collector without collection date. These were earlier identified and stored as ‘ D. obtusa Wallich’. The remaining two sheets in CAL (determined wrongly as ‘ D. cinerea D. Don’ by K. Biswas in 1937) are without any information on the locality, collector, and date of collection.	en	S., Pandey, A. S., Kanthraj, T. S., Rana, Nair, K. N. (2020): Notes on a new geographic record, recollection and lectotypification of some Indian Didymocarpus (Gesneriaceae). Rheedea 30 (1): 165-175, DOI: 10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.01.11, URL: https://doi.org/10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.01.11
03C587A07E6CCF67FD1EFC10FF7463DE.taxon	description	Didymocarpus triplotrichus is characterized by the presence of three types of hair on the plant, i. e., short acute, long spreading and glandular hairs. The species exhibits reciprocal enantiostyly, where the style and stamens are deflected to the left or right in opposite directions. Like in the closely allied D. cinereus, monomorphic enantiostyly is observed in D. triplotrichus, in which both left- and right-styled flowers are found in the same inflorescence of a plant. This species was found in small populations represented by about 20 mature individuals. It faces a high risk of becoming extinct and therefore needs urgent threat status assessment and conservation measures.	en	S., Pandey, A. S., Kanthraj, T. S., Rana, Nair, K. N. (2020): Notes on a new geographic record, recollection and lectotypification of some Indian Didymocarpus (Gesneriaceae). Rheedea 30 (1): 165-175, DOI: 10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.01.11, URL: https://doi.org/10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.01.11
03C587A07E61CF66FF8EF8EDFE2B6000.taxon	description	Notes: Didymocarpus albicalyx was originally described by Clarke (1883) with the following diagnostic characters: “ leaves ovate, serrate, and villous above; cymes many flowered, glabrous or sparsely pilose; calyx small, deeply lobed, white, with obovate, obtuse lobes; capsule 15 mm long, sub-sessile ”. According to Clarke (1883, 1885 [“ 1884 ”]), the Sikkim Himalayan specimens described and illustrated as Didymocarpus villosus D. Don (as '' villosa '') by Clarke (1874) belonged to D. albicalyx, whereas D. villosus D. Don (1825) represented a distinct species presently known to occur only in Nepal and China. In the protologue of D. albicalyx, Clarke (1883) cited three specimens: (i) Himalaya centralis, Sikkim, alt. 2000 m, Griffith 3839 (K, DC, G-BOISS); (ii) J. D. Hooker, s. n. (K, DC, P, W, G-BOISS, etc.), and (iii) Nepaul, prope flumen Tambur, J. D. Hooker, s. n. (K). In addition to these, Clarke (1883) cited '' Didymocarpus sp. n. 17 in Herbarium Indiae orientalis of J. D. Hooker & T. Thomson' ', which also would qualify as the original materials of D. albicalyx. All the above specimens represent the syntypes of D. albicalyx (ICN Art. 9.6; Turland et al., 2018). The authors traced 25 sheets of these syntypes in nine herbaria (BM, CAL, G, K, M, MH, P, S and W). Amongst these, Griffith 3839 (K [K 000858157]), with four fragments mounted on one sheet, the two upper left and right specimens with fruits, and the lower left and right ones with flowers and young fruits, was found a good match with Clarke’s original diagnosis and description of D. albicalyx. This sheet also carried Clarke’s annotation in his own handwriting: “ Didym. albicalyx C. B. Clarke, D. Don says inter alia that his villosa was large flowered and his type of villosa at the Mus. Brit. totally differs from this ”. The sheet Griffith 3839 in K is designated here as the lectotype and its duplicates in CAL, G, K, M, P, S and W as isolectotypes of D. albicalyx.	en	S., Pandey, A. S., Kanthraj, T. S., Rana, Nair, K. N. (2020): Notes on a new geographic record, recollection and lectotypification of some Indian Didymocarpus (Gesneriaceae). Rheedea 30 (1): 165-175, DOI: 10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.01.11, URL: https://doi.org/10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.01.11
