Saussurea romuleifolia Franch., 1888

Jibran, Muhammad, Idrees, Muhammad & Zhang, Zhiyong, 2023, Notes on the typification of fourteen names published by A. R. Franchet in Saussurea DC. (Asteraceae), Adansonia (3) 45 (8), pp. 115-139 : 128

Saussurea romuleifolia Franch.

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Journal de Botanique (Morot) 2: 339 ( Franchet 1888).

Saussurea romuleifolia f. pumila Lipsch. , Byulleten’ Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody, Otdel Biologicheskii 76 (4): 79 ( Lipschitz 1971b).

LECTOTYPE (here designated). — China. Yunnan: in dumetis montis Che-tzo-tze, supra Tapin-tze , 23.VIII.1883, J.M. Delavay 490 (lecto-, P[P00705566]!; isolecto-, P[P00705567]!).

REMARKS

Franchet (1888) mentioned three localities in the protologue “ Yunnan, Likiang in collibus calcareis (Delavay s.n.); “in dumetis montis Che-tzo-tze, supra Tapin-tze (Delavay 490); “in pratis siccis calcareis montis Hee-chan-men, prope Lankong, alt. 2300 m (Delavay 1005 and Delavay 58)” in the protologue, but did not indicate any holotype specimen. The online database such as Tropicos (http://legacy.tropicos.org/Name/50005742, accessed 30 Dec. 2021) cited “ G. Forrest 12 ” kept in E as “Type”, which is considered an inadvertent lectotyification according to Art. 7.11 of ICN ( Turland et al. 2018). We located six original materials deposited in K & P and all these collections should be regarded as syntypes (Art. 9.6 of ICN; Turland et al. 2018). After careful examination of all these collections, which have been deposited in P, it is necessary to select one of them as the lectotype, in accordance with Art. 9.12 of ICN ( Turland et al. 2018). We designate here the blooming specimen“ Delavay 490 ” in P (P00705566) as the lectotype. The selected sheet bears a complete and well-preserved specimen that displays all the morphological diagnostic traits in agreement with the protologue.

Figures

FIG. 10. — Lectotype of Saussurea romuleifolia Franch., Delavay 490 (P00705566).