Habenaria finetiana Schlechter (1919: 126)

Pandey, Tirtha Raj & Jin, Xiao-Hua, 2021, Taxonomic notes and typification of some Habenaria species in the Pan-Himalaya, Phytotaxa 489 (1), pp. 107-108 : 107

Habenaria finetiana Schlechter (1919: 126) .

Type:— CHINA. Yunnan, 1882, Delavay 385 [lectotype designated here: P ( P00426260 image!); isolectotype P ( P00426259 image!)]; Salween valley , Prince H. d’Orleans s. n. [syntype: P ( P00426258 image!)] .

Notes:— Schlechter described Habenaria finetiana based on the previously published account of two varieties ( Habenaria geniculata var. yunnanensis and H. miersiana var. yunnanensis ) by Finet. H. miersiana var. yunnanensis , whose original materials are cited as Delavay 385 and d’Orleans s.n. in the protologue, is in fact the basionym of H. geniculata var. yunnanensis , which in turn is the replaced synonym of H. finetiana . In the herbarium P, we found two duplicates of Delavay 385 ( P 00426260, P 00426259) and a single exsiccatum of Prince d’Orleans s.n. ( P 00426258) albeit stored under H. dentata , this error may have been occurred due to the synonymy of H. geniculata for the former, in fact it was a case of status change. To come out of this confusion regarding the original material, we have designated the Delavay 385 specimen at P with the barcode P 00426260 as the lectotype and thus its duplicate P 00426259 becomes the isolectotype, while the status of d’Orleans s.n. ( P 00426258) specimen remains unchanged to syntype.