Anaphalis marcescens (Wight) C.B.Clarke

Murugan, Perumal, Murugan, Chidambaram & Karthigeyan, Kaliyamurthy, 2021, Typification of twelve names in the genus Anaphalis DC. (Asteraceae), Adansonia (3) 43 (17), pp. 197-204 : 200

Anaphalis marcescens (Wight) C.B.Clarke

In the Compositae Indicae: 110 ( Clarke 1876). — Basionym: Gnaphalium marcescens Wight , Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis 3: 10 ( Wight 1846) ( Fig. 2B ).

TYPE CITATION. — “Neilgherries.”

LECTOTYPE (HERE DESIGNATED). — India. Tamil Nadu, Neeilgherries (Nilgiri District), s.d., Wight s.n. (lecto-, MH [ MH00007084 ]!).

RESIDUAL SYNTYPE. — India. Tamil Nadu, Neilgherries (Nilgiri District), s.d., Wight s.n. (syn-, K [ K000899039 image]!).

DISTRIBUTION. — India (Kerala and Tamil Nadu); Sri Lanka and China

REMARKS

Gnaphalium marcescens was originally described by Wight (1846) from Neeilgherries. Later Clarke (1876) in his book ‘ Compositae Indicae’ transferred G. marcescens to the genus Anaphalis DC. and named it as A. marcescens (Wight) C.B.Clarke . We have traced two specimens from two herbaria, one at MH (MH00007084) and one at K (K000899039). Of these, the sheet with barcode MH00007084 matches well with the illustration of the protologue by Wight. Hence it is designated here as the lectotype for the name G. marcescens .

Figures

FIG. 2. — A, Isolectotype of Helichrysum leptophyllum DC. (K000899022); B, lectotype of Gnaphalium marcescens Wight (MH00007084), © Madras Herbarium, Coimbatore; C, lectotype of Anaphalis meeboldii W.W.Sm. (CAL0000016862), © Central National Herbarium, Howrah; D, isolectotype of Gnaphalium neelgherryanum DC. (K000899041); A, D, © The board of trustess of Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.