Pedicularis curvipes Hooker f. (1884: 316)

Agnihotri, Priyanka, Husain, Danish, Sahoo, Dinabandhu & Barik, Saroj Kanta, 2018, A new species and typification in Pedicularis series Curvipes (Orobanchaceae), Phytotaxa 371 (4), pp. 260-266 : 265

Pedicularis curvipes Hooker f. (1884: 316)

Type (lectotype, designated here):— Sikkim, Tumbok, alt. 10,000 ft, 9 October 1870, C. B. Clarke 12764 A (K-scan! barcode K 000708926, iso: CAL!).

Notes: In his remarkable treatment of the genus Pedicularis for Flora of British India, Hooker (1884) described 26 species from Sikkim Himalaya. One such species is P. curvipes Hook. f. which was described on Clarke’s collection from Tumbok, Sikkim Himalaya. In the protologue, Hooker f. (1884: 316) cited “ Sikkim Himalaya; tumbok, alt. 10,000 ft., Clarke ”, without specifyingany herbarium or any collection number in the type citation. On detailed study of herbarium specimens (cf. Husain et al., 2006), we came across two specimens (one s.n. kept in CAL and the other 12764 A in K with barcode K 000708926). The K specimen slip-annotated as “ HOLOTYPE ” by anonymous is here designated as lectotype (McNeil 2014: 1112, Art. 9.10, Turland et al., 2018, Arts. 7.9 and 8.1).

The CAL specimen is without collection number, though collected by Clarke on same date from same locality and elevation has been considered as isolectotype of Pedicularis curvipes Hooker f.