Meeting Necessity instead of Serendipity: Miscellaneous Nomenclatural Notes on Asteraceae Author Feng, Zhen-Hao 0000-0003-1550-3519 Wuheyou Library, Bazi Collection & Botanical Garden - 661100, Mengzi, Yunnan Province, China & Tongren Art and Sports Experimental Junior High School, Tianhe District - 510599, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China shingofung@gmail.com Author Huang, Zhang-Jie 0000-0002-2288-6952 Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, Northwest University - 710069, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China lydy1993@126.com Author Sun, Hao-Nan 0009-0008-0331-1783 College of Landscape and Tourism, Hebei Agricultural University - 071000, Baoding, Hebei Province, China asier0016@gmail.com Author Liu, Su 0009-0004-2237-6284 Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden - 201602, Shanghai, China su.liu1982@foxmail.com text Phytotaxa 2024 2024-04-11 644 2 124 134 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.644.2.4 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.644.2.4 1179-3163 13214615 Anacis Schrank (1817: 5) . GENERITYPE (designated by Jeffrey 1982: 20 ):— Anacis tripteris (Linnaeus) Schrank (1817: 7) . ETYMOLOGY:— Anacis derives from Greek prefix ἀν- ( an -), prevocalic variant of ἀ- ( a- , “without”), and word ἀκίς ( akís , “pointed object”), alluding to cypselae often without pappi. Synonyms: Chrysostemma Lessing (1832: 227) . GENERITYPE:— Coreopsis tripteris Linnaeus (1753: 908) . Gyrophyllum (Nuttall) Tadesse & Crawford (2023: 105) (angiosperm, Asteraceae ), hom. illeg. , non Gyrophyllum Dozy & Molkenboer (1846: 149) (moss, Rhabdoweisiaceae ). Basionym:— Coreopsis sect. Gyrophyllum Nuttall (1841: 358) . GENERITYPE:— Coreopsis major Walter (1788: 214) .