Ceropegia elegans Wallich (1830: 3015)

Singh, Rajeev Kumar, 2015, Lectotypifications of some Indian Ceropegia (Apocynaceae: Ceropegieae), Phytotaxa 197 (2), pp. 157-160 : 157

1. Ceropegia elegans Wallich (1830: 3015) .

Type:— INDIA. Wallich, Bot. Mag. 57: t. 3015. 1830 (lectotype inadvertently designated by Ansari 1984).

Ceropegia mysorensis Wight (1845: 4 & t. 846).

Type:— INDIA. Karnataka: Mysore , December 1834, Wight 2203 (lectotype K-000894256!, here designated; isolectotypes E-00179762!, K-000894255!, NY-00318546!) .

Ceropegia sphenanantha Wight & Arnott (1834: 31) .

Type:— INDIA. Tamil Nadu: Neelgherry (Nilgiri), s.d., Wallich asclep. no. 6. (lectotype E-00179556!, here designated). Syntype:— INDIA. Tamil Nadu: Neelgherries (Nilgiri), s.d., Wight cat. n. 1513 (E-00179557!).

Distribution:— Bhutan, China, India (Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal), Myanmar, and Nepal.

Notes:—When Ceropegia lanceolata was published, the gathering Wallich asclep. n. 12 from Nepal was cited in the protologue, but no specific herbarium sheet was designated as holotype. This gathering contains at least two sheets, one at E and another at K. The best one, K-000857830, is designated here as the lectotype, as it agrees well with the protologue.