Saussurea ciliaris Franch.

(Fig. 3)

Journal de Botanique (Morot) 2: 357 (Franchet 1888).

LECTOTYPE (here designated). — China. Yunnan, ad collum Yen-tzehay, supra Lankong, alt. 3500 m, 27.VIII.1886, J.M. Delavay 2105 (lecto-, P[P00705417]!; isolecto-, A[A00011743]!, K [K000786459, K000786460]!, P[P00705415, P00705416, P00705418, P00705419, P00705420]!).

REMARKS

In the protologue, Franchet (1888) cited one collection: “ Yunnan, ad collum Yen-tze-hay, supra Lankong, alt. 3500 m, “ Delavay 2105 ” as the type [first-step], without indicating the herbaria where the specimen was deposited. According to Stafleu & Cowan (1976), Franchet worked at P and Delavay’s specimens were deposited in K and P. We located nine original materials of “ Delavay 2105 ”, which have been deposited in A, K and P, and should be regarded as syntypes (Arts 9.6, and 40 Note 1 of ICN, Turland et al. 2018). The original materials in P all bear the informations “ Syntype Saussurea ciliaris Franch. ” as well as Delavay’s annotation; hence it is necessary to select one of them as the lectotype (Art. 9.17 of ICN; Turland et al. 2018). We here designate the blooming specimen “ Delavay 2105 ” in P (P00705417) as the lectotype [second-step]. The selected sheet is a perfect match to the description, locality and altitute that displays all the morphological diagnostic traits in agreement with the protologue.