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 oblonga DC. In the Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 6: 274 ( De Candolle 1838 ) ( Fig. 3A ). TYPE CITATION. — “Neelgerry Indiae Orient. by Leschenault ”. LECTOTYPE (HERE DESIGNATED). — India . Tamil Nadu , Neelgerry , s.d., Leschenault 297 ( lecto- , P [ P01816380 image]! ; isolecto- , G ( G00322867 image]!; P [ P01816381 image]!). RESIDUAL SYNTYPE. — India . Tamil Nadu , Neilgherries , s.d., Leschenault s.n. (syn-, P[ P01816382 image]!). DISTRIBUTION. — India (Kerala and Tamil Nadu), endemic. REMARKS De Candolle (1838) cited the specimens collected from Neelgerry by Leschenault in the protologue while describing. We have traced four specimens, three at P (P01816380, P01816381, P01816382) and one at De Candolle Herbarium (G00322867). Of these, the specimen P01816380 which is better preserved is designated here as the lectotype of A. oblonga .