Impatiens jerdoniae Wight (1850: 15)

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 : 169-170

10. Impatiens jerdoniae Wight (1850: 15) .

Type citation:—“On branches of trees and moist rocks on the Sisparah Ghaut of the Neilgherries.”

Type:— INDIA. Without precise locality, s.d., Wight s.n. (lectotype K 000694885!, designated here).

Residual syntype: — INDIA. Sispara Ghat, s.d., Wight 319 ( K 000694884!).

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

Notes:— Wight (1850) described Impatiens jerdoniae on the basis of specimens collected from Sispara Ghat, Nilgiri. Two herbarium specimens with Wight’s annotation “ Imp. jerdoniae ” are traced (K000694884 and K000694885) and these should be considered as original material. The best one, K000694885, is designated here as the lectotype as it agrees well with the protologue. The slip attached to K000694884 mentioning the locality “Avalangy” and date “1852” apparently has been misplaced, because the type locality “Sispara” is also written on the specimen. From the accession register at MH it is clear that the specimens belonging to Wight cat. n. 1–348 were collected before 1837.