Saussurea spatulifolia Franch., 1888

Saussurea spatulifolia Franch. View in CoL View at ENA

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Journal de Botanique (Morot) 2: 338 (1888).

LECTOTYPE (here designated). — China. Yunnan: in rupibus regionis altissimae tractus Likiang Suesschan , alt. 4500 m, 14.VIII.1886, J.M. Delavay 2101 (lecto-, P[P00602912]!; isolecto-, P[P00602913]!).

REMARKS

S. spatulifolia View in CoL was described by Franchet (1888) who cited one collection ( Delavay 2121) as type in the protologue, without indicating the herbaria where the specimen was deposited. Lipschitz (1962) cited TYPUS: ( Delavay 2101), in P [first-step], which is considered an inadvertent lectotyification according to Art. 7.11 of ICN ( Turland et al. 2018). We located two duplicate specimens in P (barcode 00602912-00602913). According to ICN, Arts 9.6, and 40 Note 1 ( Turland et al. 2018), none of them can be treated as holotype, but should be regarded as syntypes. We designate here the blooming specimen “ Delavay 2101 ” in P (P00602912) as the lectotype [second-step], in accordance with Art. 9.17 (ICN; Turland et al. 2018), since it is morphologically complete and well-preserved specimen that displays all the morphological diagnostic traits in agreement with the protologue.