Impatiens rufescens Bentham ex Wight & Arnott (1834: 138)

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 : 173

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.268.3.1

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scientific name

Impatiens rufescens Bentham ex Wight & Arnott (1834: 138)
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21. Impatiens rufescens Bentham ex Wight & Arnott (1834: 138) View in CoL .

Type citation:—“ Benth.! in Wall.! L. n. 4747; Wight! cat. n. 448, 453.”

Type:— INDIA. Peninsula Ind. Orientalis, s.d., Wight 453 (lectotype E00174298 !, designated here; isolectotypes E00174299 !, E00174304 !, MH! Accession no. 7501 and P04538745 !) .

Residual syntypes: — INDIA. Without precise locality, s.d., Herb. Wight, Wallich cat. n. 4747 ( K001039812 ! and CAL!) ; Peninsula Ind. Orientalis, s.d., Wight 448 ( E00174296 !, E00174297 ! and E00174303 !) .

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

Notes:— Wight & Arnott (1834) described Impatiens rufescens based on the collections of Wallich cat. n. 4747, Wight! cat. n. 448 and 453. Pertaining to the type specification provided in protologue, ten specimens were traced (CAL, E00174296 ‒ 00174299, E00174303, E00174304, K001039812, MH7501 and P04538745). Of these, the best preserved specimen, E00174298, is designated here as the lectotype as it agrees well with the protologue.

L

Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Leiden University branch

MH

Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel

CAL

Botanical Survey of India

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ericales

Family

Balsaminaceae

Genus

Impatiens

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ericales

Family

Balsaminaceae

Genus

Impatiens

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