Saussurea delavayi Franch., 1888

Saussurea delavayi Franch. View in CoL View at ENA

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Journal de Botanique (Morot) 2: 355 ( Franchet 1888).

LECTOTYPE (here designated). — China. Yunnan, in monte Tsangchan, supra Tali , alt. 4000 m, 3.VIII.1884, J.M. Delavay 996 (lecto-, P[P00602833]!; isolecto-, A[A00011748]!, K [ K000786464 ]!, P[P00602834]!).

REMARKS

Franchet (1888) described S. delavayi without designating any specimen as holotype but cited two specimens ( Delavay 691 and Delavay 996) in the protologue, but, since then, no author has designated a lectotype, even inadvertently (Art. 7.11 of ICN, Turland et al. 2018) and all these collections should be regarded as syntypes (ICN; Art. 9.6, Turland et al. 2018). According to Stafleu & Cowan (1976), Franchet worked at P and Delavay’s specimens were deposited in K and P. Eight original materials were traced, two of them “ Delavay 691 ” deposited in P (P00602835, P00602836), and four of them “ Delavay 996 ” in A (A00011748), K (K000786464), and P (P00602833, P00602834). According to Art. 9.12 of ICN ( Turland et al. 2018) one of them should be chosen as the lectotype. Among these collections, the one sheet “ Delavay 996 ” in P (P00602833) is a perfect match to the description given in the protologue, thus, this blooming specimen is selected here as the lectotype.