Lectotypification of two names in Indian Millettia (Fabaceae-Papilionoideae) Author Balan, Anoop Puthuparampil 0000-0002-0608-970X KSCSTE-Malabar Botanical Garden and Institute for Plant Sciences, P. B. No. 1, Kozhikode- 673 014, Kerala, India. anooppb 01 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0608 - 970 X anooppb01@gmail.com Author Predeep, Sreevilas Vasudevan SVR NSS College, T. P. Puram, Vazhoor, Kottayam- 686 505, Kerala, India. Author Prakashkumar, Raveendran Pillai 0000-0002-0608-970X KSCSTE-Malabar Botanical Garden and Institute for Plant Sciences, P. B. No. 1, Kozhikode- 673 014, Kerala, India. anooppb 01 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0608 - 970 X & Present address: KSCSTE - Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Palode, Thiruvananthapuram- 695 562, Kerala India. anooppb01@gmail.com text Phytotaxa 2021 2021-04-06 494 2 225 230 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.494.2.5 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.494.2.5 1179-3163 5423408 Millettia splendens Wight & Arnott (1834: 263) FIGURE 2 , C & D Lectotype ( designated here):— INDIA . Neelgheries , Ballsar , s.d., Wight 998 (K000848703), digital image!; isolectotypes CAL0000012590, E00174565, K000848704, M0233439 and P 02141868 (digital images!) Distribution :— India , endemic ( Kerala and Tamil Nadu ). Notes :— Wight & Arnott (1834) described Millettia splendens based on the collection Wight 998. The collection locality and date are not mentioned in the protologue. Six specimens of M. splendens collected by Wight were traced (CAL0000012590, E00174565, K000848703, K000848704, M0233439 and P 02141868 ). Of these, K000848703 is chosen here as the lectotype as it well exhibits the diagnostic characters of the species mentioned in the protologue. The exact collection locality, Ballsar, Neelgheries is written on this sheet in Wight’s hand. In the specimens deposited at CAL and M, the collection number was labelled as ‘807’, which was probably a mistake happened during remounting. Wight Cat. n. 807 is Alysicarpus nummularifolius DC. (1825: 353) and 802 to 809 are pertaining to different species of Alysicarpus . The specimens in CAL and K are examined by Dunn during the revisionary studies of the genus Millettia and labelled as ‘typus’.