Pimpinella wallichiana (Miq. ex Hohen.) Gandhi

Pimpinella wallichiana (Miq. ex Hohen.) Gandhi View in CoL in Saldanha & Nicolson, FI. Hassan Distr. 417. 1976. Helosciadium wallichianum Miq. ex Hohen., Bot. Zeitg. 7: 775. 1849. Lectotype (designated here): INDIA, Karnataka, Mercara , s.d., R.F. Hohenacker 633 (BM [BM000885400 digital image!]; isolecto C [C10008529 digital image!], H [H1035251 digital image!],M [M0172931 digital image!], P [P02543210, P02543213, P02543214 digital images!]). Fig. 5 View Fig

Notes: Hohenacker (1849) issued a series of exsiccatae for sale with the name Helosciadium wallichianum Miq. , based on a collection from Mercara , Karnataka . The list also included a short diagnosis, making it the valid place of publication for the species. Gandhi (1976) made a new combination as Pimpinella wallichiana (Miq. ex Hohen.) Gandhi. The collections by Hohenacker are distributed in various herbaria in Europe such as B, BAS, BM, FH, G, GOET, HAL, KIEL, L, M, NY, STR, UPS and W (Staflleu & Cowan, 1988). We could locate 7 sheets attached to the name deposited at BM, C, H, M, and P (BM000885400 digital image!, C10008529 digital image!, M0172931 digital image!, P02543210 digital image!, P02543213 digital image!, P02543214 digital image!, H1035251 digital image!) all are collected from Prope Mercara , Karnataka in October. All of these except BM000885400 has the printed specimen labels entitled “Pl. Ind. Or. (Terr. Canara et confin.) Ed. R.F. Hohenacker 633 ”. Of these, the sheets C10008529, M0172931, P02543210 and P02543214 lack basal leaves and two sheets (P02543213, H1035251) possess plants with immature umbels.

The collection BM000885400has an annotation label “ 633. Differt ab H. Heyneano DC. Foliis inferioribus tri-

foliolatis, foliolo medio cordato-, lateralibus semi-cordato-

lauceatis, Omnibus argute rigide serratis longeque petiolulatis” in Miquel’s handwriting and overlapped with the writing “ Mercara 633 ” by Hohenacker. An additional label is attached to the left upper corner, annotated as “ India Orientali, Canara Hohenacker ” by Hohenacker. The specimen BM000885400 bears 2 twigs along with the basal leaves and the annotations by Hohenacker and Miquel match perfectly with the protologue, hence selected here as the lectotype (Art. 9.3 of ICN, Turland et al., 2018) .