taxonID	type	description	language	source
380987D8182DA938FF74F9CB1775FE89.taxon	description	Note: — This species is named after Charles Alfred Barber, a British botanist, who was also an expert in sugarcane and worked much of his life in south India. Drummond (1918) described Tephrosia barberi in Gamble’s Flora of Presidency of Madras with a comment “ a distinct looking undershrub with reddish flexuose branchlets and small obovate obtuse leaflets, softly villous ”. The names of two collectors are cited in the protologue with their collection localities as “ S. Carnatic at Kudiramalai Teri, Thinnavely (Barber) and Tuticorin (Wight) ”. After a thorough search at various herbaria, we could not find a Tuticorin collection made by Wight, but we found duplicates of Barber 630 at K and MH. Two specimens are pasted on the Kew herbarium sheet and both of them are fertile. Additionally, a complete dissection of floral parts with line drawings is also pasted on the top left corner. The herbarium sheet deposited at Madras Herbarium is also fertile, though poorly preserved. On both the type specimens, the exact collection locality of this taxon at Kudiramalai is written as ‘ Nazareth’ but Thinnavelly [Thirunelvely-Tamil Nadu] is not mentioned. From this, it is indirectly evident that Drummond studied more than one specimen before establishing T. barberi. Here we select Barber 630 (K 000848871) at Kew herbarium, which includes dissected flowers and a drawing made by Drummond, as the lectotype. This species is endemic to Tamil Nadu, India.	en	Krishnaraj, Moothedathu Venugopalan Nair, Mohanan, Narayanan Nair (2017): Three lectotypifications in Tephrosia Pers. (Fabaceae). Phytotaxa 319 (2): 197-199, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.319.2.9, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.319.2.9
380987D8182DA939FF74FC6711C1F9E7.taxon	description	Note: — This South East-Asian endemic species, distributed in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, was named after Joseph Dalton Hooker by Robert Wight and G. A. Walker Arnott in 1834. In the protologue, the authors cite one gathering “ Wight! Cat. n. 884, T. Colutea, Wight! In Wall.! L. n. 5647 (not DC.) Trichinopoly ”. Noltie (2005) cited the details of three specimens of T. hookeriana Wight & Arnott housed at Edinburgh herbarium (E). The herbarium specimen E 00174456 is original material and consists of two pieces, mounted on the upper and lower half. It carries the label Herb. Wight. Propr. n. 884, bearing the names Tephrosiahookeriana, T. colutea Wight in W. L. n. 5647, Trichnopoly and is a syntype. The specimen on the upper half is fully reproductive while the lower half has only flower buds present. Another specimen (E 00174458) with the label Herb. Wight Propr. n. 884, Tephrosia colutea from Wight, Nagapatam, Trichnopoly, consists of a flowering twig, fruits and leaves (in a separate packet) and is an isosyntype. Noltie also cited another specimen without a Herb. Wight. Propr. label and probably annotated by Robert Graham as Wight Cat. n. 884, Tephrosia hookeriana, Colemala, Wight 1833. Noltie asserted that the specimen (E 00174457) do not belong to the original material because it was not collected from “ Trichnopoly ”, which is the type locality of T. hookeriana. We agree with Noltie and here select E 00174456 as the lectotype, since it agrees with the protologue. The other collection at E with Wight Cat. n. 884, collected from Trichnopoly has been designated here as isolectotype.	en	Krishnaraj, Moothedathu Venugopalan Nair, Mohanan, Narayanan Nair (2017): Three lectotypifications in Tephrosia Pers. (Fabaceae). Phytotaxa 319 (2): 197-199, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.319.2.9, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.319.2.9
380987D8182CA938FF74FEE6107FFB91.taxon	description	Note: — This species is named after the Kanara region of Karnataka, comprises of three coastal districts namely, Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Uttara Kannada. Drummond described Tephrosia canarensis in Gamble’s Flora of Presidency of Madras (1918) and commented “ An erect undershrub with large reddish flowers and leaflets up to 2.5 inch long ”. In the protologue, the distributional range is given as “ Western Ghats in South Canara, extending northwards, southwards to Wynaad [Wayanadu] ”. This suggests that the author had seen more than one specimen or was familiar with the taxon in the field, the latter being unlikely. Drummond also cited T. tinctoria, Persoon (1827: 329) var. interrupta, Baker in F. B. I. ii. 112 in part only under T. canarensis. Not only the varietal epithet ‘ interrupta’ but also the author name ‘ Baker’ seems to be a mistake on Drummond’s part, because there was no such variety described by Baker (1876) in the Flora of British India. However var. intermedia is given under T. tinctoria by Baker as coined by Wight and Arnott (= T. intermedia Graham ex Wall. in Wall. Cat. 1832: 5632). After a thorough search at MH and K herbaria, we found several specimens of T. canarensis, collected from South Canara and studied by Drummond [South Canara, Gurpur, s. d., Lawson 7183 (MH 00206929!); South Canara, Nibohwar, 6.12.1919, without collector name, (MH 00206930!); South Canara, Jahlsur, 21. 11. 1900, Barber 2493 (MH 00206931!) and South Karnataka, Prope Urbem Mangalor, s. n., s. d., without collector name (K 000848892!)]. Since sheet K 000848892 deposited at Kew herbarium bears the determinavit slip of J. R. Drummond, and also matches the protologue, it is here selected as the lectotype of T. canarensis. This species is mainly distributed in Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, andTamil Nadu (endemic to Southern Western Ghats).	en	Krishnaraj, Moothedathu Venugopalan Nair, Mohanan, Narayanan Nair (2017): Three lectotypifications in Tephrosia Pers. (Fabaceae). Phytotaxa 319 (2): 197-199, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.319.2.9, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.319.2.9
