Pedicularis gracilis Wall. ex Benth. ( Bentham 1835: 52 )

17. Pedicularis gracilis Wall. ex Benth. ( Bentham 1835: 52) View in CoL .

Protologue citation:—“Hab. in Napalia, Gossain Than et Kamaon, Wallich, Mussooree, Royle ”.

Type :— NEPAL. Gossain Than, s.d., Wallich cat. n. 413.2 ( lectotype K000739044!, second-step, designated here, first-step designated by Pennell 1943: 131) ; isolectotypes CAL!, GZU000093402 !, M0188776 !

Syntypes:— NEPAL. 1821, Wallich cat. n. 413.1 (BM000885912!, BR0000005431113!, E00273620!, E00273621!, E00273622!, E00273623!, GZU000093404!, K000739045!, K001109989!, L2885952!, P04408649!, P02976683!, P02976721!, PH 00019476!, PH 00019477!, S11-2834!

Notes:— Pedicularis gracilis was described by Bentham (1835) based on the specimens of Wallich from Gossain Than, Nepal and Royle from Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India. Pennell (1943) cited type as “ Wallich 413” at K, however he did not specify which particular herbarium specimen at K was the type as there are three herbarium sheets of Wallich 413 (K000739044, K000739045 and K001109989). According to Art. 9.17 of ICN ( Turland et al. 2018), Pennell’s type citation must be accepted as the first-step lectotypification. The type citation of Pennell can be further narrowed to a single specimen by second-step lectotypification. Therefore, from the three specimens of Wallich cat. n. 413 at K, the best preserved specimen K000739044 from herbarium Benthamianum, is designated here as the second-step lectotype for the name P. gracilis Wall. ex Benth. The date 1829 mentioned on the sheet K000739044, is the date of inclusion of this specimen in the Wallich catalogue ( Wallich cat. n. 413.2), not the year of collection.