Impatiens inconspicua Bentham ex Wight & Arnott (1834: 139)

Singh, Rajeev Kumar, 2016, Typification of thirty six names of thirty five recognized taxa in Impatiens (Balsaminaceae), endemic to Western Ghats, Phytotaxa 268 (3), pp. 167-180 : 169

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Impatiens inconspicua Bentham ex Wight & Arnott (1834: 139)
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9. Impatiens inconspicua Bentham ex Wight & Arnott (1834: 139) View in CoL .

Type citation:—“ Benth.! in Wall.! L. n. 4741.— I. pusilla, Heyne ! in Wall.! L. n. 4745.”

Type:— INDIA. Without precise locality, s.d., Herb. Heyne, Wallich cat. n. 4741 (lectotype K001039801 !, designated here; isolectotypes G00237322 !, G00237323 !, K000720273 ! and P04543289 !) .

Residual syntypes: — INDIA. Karnataka: Chikkamagaluru district, Bababudan, 23 September 1816, Herb. Heyne, Wallich cat. n. 4745 ( K 001039808! and K 000720272!).

Distribution:— India, endemic (Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu).

Notes:— Wight & Arnott (1834) described Impatiens inconspicua based on the collections of Wallich cat. n. 4741 and 4745. Pertaining to the type specification provided in protologue, seven herbarium specimens were traced (G00237322, G00237323, K000720272, K000720273, K001039801, K001039808 and P04543289). Of these, the best preserved specimen, K001039801, is designated here as the lectotype as it agrees well with the protologue.

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