Notes on the typification of fourteen names published by A. R. Franchet in Saussurea DC. (Asteraceae) Author Jibran, Muhammad Author Idrees, Muhammad Author Zhang, Zhiyong text Adansonia 2023 3 2023-04-11 45 8 115 139 journal article 10.5252/adansonia2023v45a8 1639-4798 7841520 Saussurea compta Franch. ( Fig. 4 ) Journal de Botanique (Morot) 10: 422 ( Franchet 1896b ). Saussurea chrysanthemoides F.H. Chen , Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, Botany 6 (2): 97 ( Chen 1935 ) . LECTOTYPE (here designated). — China . Se-tchuen ( Sichuan ) occidentalis, c. Ta-tsien-lou, 1893, J.A. Soulié 620 (lecto-, P[P00602826]!; isolecto-, G[G00301551]!, K [ K000035714 ]!, P[P00602827, P00602828]!). REMARKS In the protologue, Franchet (1896b) mentioned the following locality information: “Se-tchuen ( Sichuan ) occidentalis, circa Ta-tsien-lou, ( J.A. Soulié 620 ) as the type, without indicating the herbaria where the specimen was deposited. Lipschitz (1966) cited TYPUS: Se-tchuen ( Sichuan ) occidentalis, circa Ta-tsien-lou “ J.A. Soulié 620 ” in P [first-step], which is considered an inadvertent lectotyification according to Art. 7.11 of ICN ( Turland et al. 2018 ). Three original materials were traced in P. 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 . After careful examination of all the sheets deposited in P and labels with Red tag “TYPE”, it is necessary to select one of them as the lectotype (ICN; Art. 9.17 Turland et al. 2018 ). We designate here the blooming specimen “ J.A. Soulié 620 ” in P (P00602826) as the lectotype [second-step]. The selected sheet is morphologically complete and well-preserved specimen that displays all the morphological diagnostic traits in agreement with the protologue.