Ceropegia pusilla Wight & Arnott (1834: 31)

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

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.197.2.9

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scientific name

Ceropegia pusilla Wight & Arnott (1834: 31)
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6. Ceropegia pusilla Wight & Arnott (1834: 31) View in CoL .

Type:— INDIA. Tamil Nadu: Neelgherries (Nilgiri), s.d., Wight cat. n. 1514 (lectotype E-00179559!, here designated).

Distribution:— India [endemic and rare (Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu)].

Notes:—Wight &Arnott (1834) described Ceropegia pusilla based on two gatherings from Neelgherries (Nilgiri), Wight cat. n. 1514 and Wallich asclep. no. 7. Of these, only one specimen of the former, E-00179559, is extant and is chosen here as the lectotype. The gathering Wight cat. n. 1932 with four specimens —one each at M (M-0175136), K (K-000857818), P (P-03899239), and S (S12-11997)—mentioned as isotypes by Ansari (1984) and Huber (1957) is not cited in protologue.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Gentianales

Family

Apocynaceae

Genus

Ceropegia

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Gentianales

Family

Apocynaceae

Genus

Ceropegia

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