Barleria pilosa Nees (1832: 93)

Patil, Suraj S., Deshmukh, Pradip V. & Lekhak, Manoj M., 2022, Typification of some names in Indian Barleria L. (Acanthaceae), Phytotaxa 547 (3), pp. 285-294 : 292

Barleria pilosa Nees (1832: 93)

Type (lectotype designated here):— INDIA. Courtallum , Wallich Cat. no. 2502b, Herb. Heyne (K barcode K001116226!). Fig. 5 . Residual syntypes:—GZU barcodes GZU000261736! and GZU000251702!; K barcodes K001116225! and K000797788!; CAL barcodes CAL0000072414! and CAL0000033995 !

Notes: Nees (1832) validated B. pilosa based on the two gatherings distributed by Wallich ‘Herb. Madrasp. et Herb. Heyn. Wall. Cat. n. 2502a, b.’ without specifying the type. Shendage and Yadav (2010: 94) indicated “Wall., Numer. List No. 2502a (CAL)” as lectotype for the name, but their lectotypification was ineffective, as it violates Art. 7.11 of the ICN. The original material for this name includes two specimens mounted on the same sheet from Nees’s Herbarium at GZU, one (GZU000261736) labelled “2502 / Barleria pilosa Hb. Madr. / e Courtallum” and the other (GZU000251702) “2502/b / Hb. Heyn. / e Courtallum”; two specimens at K (“a”: K001116225 & “b”: K001116226) mounted together with Wallich’s (1830a: 76) cut-out label and another (K000797788) with label “ Barleria pilosa Heyne / ‘Cuttalam’ July 1828 ”; and two specimens at CAL (“2502 / Hb. Madr.”: CAL0000072414 & “2502 / Hb. Heyn.”: CAL0000033995). Instead of the specimen from CAL, we select the specimen from K (K001116226) as lectotype because it matches well with the protologue.

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FIGURE 5. Lectotype of Barleria pilosa (K001116226) [Reproduced with kind permission of the Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.].