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 leptophylla (DC.) DC. In Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 6: 273 ( De Candolle 1838 ) . — Basionym: Helichrysum leptophyllum DC. in Wight, Contributions to the Botany of India: 20 ( De Candolle 1834 ) ( Fig. 2A ) . TYPE CITATION. — “Neelgherry, Wight cat. n. 1467 ”. LECTOTYPE (HERE DESIGNATED). — India . Neelgherries , s.d., Wight cat. n. 1467 ( lecto- , E [ E00385827 image]! ; isolecto- , E [ E00385828 image]!; E [ E00385829 image]!; K [ K000899022 image]!; K [ K000899023 image]!; P [ P01816371 image]!). RESIDUAL SYNTYPE. — India . Tamil Nadu , Neeilgherries (Nilgiri District), s.d., Wight s.n. ( syn- , MH [ MH00007084 ]!). DISTRIBUTION. — India (Kerala and Tamil Nadu), endemic. REMARKS Helichrysum leptophyllum De Candolle (1834) was formally described based on the collections from Neelgherry by Wight cat.n. 1467. De Candolle (1838) transferred Helichrysum leptophyllum to the genus Anaphalis DC and named it as Anaphalis leptophylla (DC.) DC. Seven herbarium specimens were traced from four different herbaria, which includes three sheets from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Herbarium (E) (E00385827, E00385828, E00385829), two sheets from K (K000899022, K000899023), one sheet from the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (P) (P01816371) and one sheet from MH (MH00007084). Among these, the specimen E00385827 is better preserved and more complete, which is designated here as the lectotype.