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 subdecurrens (DC.) Gamble In Flora of the Presidency of Madras 2: 695 ( Gamble 1921 ) . — Basionym: Gnaphalium subdecurrens DC. , in Wight, Contributions to the Botany of India: 21 ( De Candolle 1834 ) ( Fig. 3B ). TYPE CITATION. — “In montibus Dindygul, Wight cat. n. 1469 ”. LECTOTYPE (HERE DESIGNATED). — India . Tamil Nadu , Dindygul hills , s.d., Wight cat. n. 1469 ( lecto- , E [ E00528784 image]! ; isolecto- , E [ E00414233 image, E00414247 image]!), K ( K000898988 image, K000898989 image, K000898991 image]!, NY [ NY00169546 image]!, P [ P01816383 image, P01816384 image]!). RESIDUAL SYNTYPES. — India . Pulneys , s.d., Wight s.n. ( syn- , MH [ MH00007088 ]!) ; s.l., s.d., Wall . n. 2947 B , Herb. Wightianum, ( syn- , K [ K001118247 image]!). DISTRIBUTION. — India (Kerala and Tamil Nadu), endemic. REMARKS In the protologue of Gnaphalium subdecurrens , De Candolle (1834) mentioned the type as ‘In montibus Dindygul by Wight cat. n. 1469”. Gamble (1921) transferred Gnaphalium subdecurrens to the genus Anaphalis DC. and named as A. subdecurrens (DC.) Gamble.We have traced eleven specimens from different herbaria, three at E (E00414233, E00414247, E00528784), three at K (K000898988, K000898989, K000898991), two at P (P01816383, P01816384), one at New York Botanical Garden (NY00169546) and one at MH (MH00007088). Among these, the specimen, E00528784 which is complete and better preserved is designated here as the lectotype of the name G. subdecurrens .