Typification of twelve names in the genus Anaphalis DC. (Asteraceae) Author Murugan, Perumal Botanical Survey of India, Southern Regional Centre, TNAU campus, Coimbatore – 641 003, Tamil Nadu (India) murulax@gmail.com Author Murugan, Chidambaram Botanical Survey of India, Southern Regional Centre, TNAU campus, Coimbatore – 641 003, Tamil Nadu (India) sivanthimurugan@rediffmail.com Author Karthigeyan, Kaliyamurthy Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, P. O. Botanic Garden, Howrah – 711 103, West Bengal (India) karthigeyan.murthy@gmail.com text Adansonia 2021 3 2021-09-20 43 17 197 204 journal article 4019 10.5252/adansonia2021v43a17 9d036143-8637-4992-995a-09763a6c8860 1639-4798 5519428 Anaphalis wightiana (DC.) DC. In Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 6: 273 ( De Candolle 1838 ). — Basionym: Gnaphalium wightianum DC. in Wight, Contributions to the Botany of India: 21 ( De Candolle 1834 ) ( Fig. 3D ). TYPE CITATION. — “In Neelgherry, Wight cat. n. 1471 ”. LECTOTYPE (HERE DESIGNATED). — India . Neelgherries , s.d., Wight 1471 ( lecto- , E [ E00414229 image]! ; isolecto- , K [ K000899031 image]!; MH [ MH00007090 , MH00007091 ]!, P [ P01816403 image]!). RESIDUAL SYNTYPES. — India . Nilgherry , s.d., Wight & E. Noton (Wall. cat. n. 2940) ( syn- , K [ K001118233 image, K001118234 image]!) . DISTRIBUTION. — India (Kerala and Tamil Nadu), endemic. REMARKS De Candolle in Wight (1834) while describing Gnaphalium wightianum , formally mentioned the gathering of Wight Cat. n. 1471, Wall. n. 2940 in the protologue. De Candolle (1838) transferred Gnaphalium wightianum to the genus Anaphalis DC and named it as A. wightiana (DC.) DC. We traced seven specimens from different herbaria, three at K (K000899031, K001118233, K001118234), two at MH (MH00007090, MH00007091), one at E (E00414229) and one at P (P01816403). Of these, the specimen E00414229 is designated here as the lectotype of the name G. wightianum .