Barleria lawii T. Anderson (1867: 492)

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 : 290

Barleria lawii T. Anderson (1867: 492)

Type (lectotype designated here):— INDIA. Bababoodun [Baba Budan] hills, s.d., Law s.n. (CAL barcode CAL0000019892!). Fig. 3 . Residual syntypes:— BR No. 694246!; C barcode C10004759!; CAL barcode CAL0000019891!; P barcodes P00719485!, P00719488!, P00719487! and P00719490 !

Notes: This species was described by Thomas Anderson (1867), who cited two different gatherings in the protologue, viz. ‘in collibus Babadoodun, Law’ [on the hills of Babadoodun (Baba Budan), collected by Law] and ‘in montibus Concan et Malabar, Stocks, Law [in the mountains of Konkan and Malabar collected by Stocks and Law], these two gatherings must be treated as syntypes (Art. 9.6 of the ICN). Shendage & Yadav (2010: 103) indicated “ India, Karnataka, Chikmagalur district , Bababudan hills, Stocks & Law 33 (CAL)” as the type, again failing to satisfy Art. 7.11 of the ICN so their type indication has no standing. We select the specimen from Anderson’s Herbarium collected by Law (CAL0000019892) ( Fig. 3 ). From Bababoodun [Baba Budan] as lectotype as it matches well with the protologue. The other syntype gathering, Stocks & Law 33, from the Hooker et Thomson Herbarium is represented in BR (no. 694246), C (C10004759), CAL (CAL0000019891), and P (P00719485, P00719488, P00719487 and P00719490).

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FIGURE 3. Lectotype of Barleria lawii (CAL0000019892) [Reproduced with kind permission of The Director, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata.].