Saussurea macrota Franch., 1894

Jibran, Muhammad, Idrees, Muhammad & Zhang, Zhiyong, 2023, Notes on the typification of fourteen names published by A. R. Franchet in Saussurea DC. (Asteraceae), Adansonia (3) 45 (8), pp. 115-139 : 126

Saussurea macrota Franch.

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Journal de Botanique (Morot) 8: 343 ( Franchet 1894).

Saussurea auriculata Hemsl. , Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany 29: 308 ( Hemsley 1892). — Saussurea macrota var. papyracea S.Ju. Lipschitz, Rod Saussurea : 210 ( Lipschitz 1979). — Saussurea hemsleyana Hand. -Mazz., Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 13: 647 (Handel-Mazzetti 1937). — Saussurea otophylla Diels, Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik 36 (5, Beibl. 82): 109 ( Diels 1905).

LECTOTYPE (here designated). — China. Se-tchuen (Sichuan) oriental, sur les montagnes de Tchen-Kéou-tin, alt. 2500 m, P.G. Farges s.n. (lecto-, P[P00602874]!; isolecto-, P[P00602875]!).

REMARKS

In the protologue, Franchet (1894) mentioned the following locality information: “Se-tchuen (Sichuan) oriental, sur les montagnes de Tchen-Kéou-tin, alt. 2500 m (P.G. Farges s.n.) as the type, without indicating the herbaria where the specimen was deposited. Lipschitz (1964) cited TYPUS: Se-tchuen (Sichuan) oriental, sur les montagnes de Tchen-Kéou-tin, alt. 2500 m “ P.G. Farges s.n. ” in P [first-step], which is considered an inadvertent lectotyification according to Art. 7.11 of ICN ( Turland et al. 2018). We traced two duplicate specimens in P (P00602874, P00602875). According to ICN, Arts 9.6, and 40, Note 1 ( Turland et al. 2018), none of them can be treated as holotype, but should be regarded as syntypes. After careful examination of two sheets deposited in P, it is necessary to select one of them as the lectotype (ICN; Art. 9.17, Turland et al. 2018). We designate here the blooming specimen “ P.G. Farges s.n. ” in P (P00602874) as the lectotype [second-step]. The selected sheet is morphologically complete and well-preserved specimen that displays all the morphological diagnostic traits in agreement with the protologue.

Figures

FIG. 8. — Lectotype of Saussurea macrota Franch., Farges s.n. (P00602874).