Saussurea vestita Franch., 1888

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 : 131

Saussurea vestita Franch.

( Fig. 14 )

Journal de Botanique (Morot) 2: 358 ( Franchet 1888) .

LECTOTYPE (here designated). — China. Yunnan, in calcareis ad collum montis Hee-chan-men, prope Lankong , alt. 3000 m, 30.VIII.1886, J.M. Delavay 2145 (lecto-, P[P00602923]!; isolecto-, K[ K000035680 , K000035681 ]!, P[P00602924]!).

REMARKS

In the protologue, Franchet (1888) provided the following localities information: “ Yunnan, in calcareis ad collum montis Hee-chan-men, prope Lankong, alt. 3000 m (Delavay 2145); “ad collum Pi-iou-se, supra Tapin-tze (Delavay s.n.); “ad pedem montis Yang-in-chan (Delavay s.n.)” but did not indicate any holotype specimen. Since then, no author has designated a lectotype, even inadvertently (Art. 7.11 of ICN, Turland et al. 2018). We located seven original materials deposited in K & P, and all these collections should be regarded as syntypes (Art. 9.6 of ICN; Turland et al. 2018). After careful examination of all these collections, which have been deposited in P, it is necessary to select one of them as the lectotype in accordance with Art. 9.12 of ICN ( Turland et al. 2018). We designate here the blooming specimen “ Delavay 2145 ” in P (P00602923) as the lectotype.The selected sheet bears a complete and well-preserved specimen that displays all the morphological diagnostic traits in agreement with the protologue.

Figures

FIG. 14. — Lectotype of Saussurea vestita Franch., Delavay 2145 (P00602923).