Typification of three names of Asian conifers Author Khuraijam, Jibankumar Singh 0000-0003-4603-0216 Botanic Garden Division, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow - 226 001, India. khuraijam. js @ nbri. res. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4603 - 0216 khuraijam.js@nbri.res.in Author Wiersema, John H. 0000-0001-9383-2807 Department of Botany, NMNH - MRC 166, Smithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 37012, Washington, D. C., 20013 - 7012, U. S. A. wiersemaj @ si. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9383 - 2807 wiersemaj@si.edu text Phytotaxa 2022 2022-06-16 550 3 295 300 journal article 77020 10.11646/phytotaxa.550.3.10 cb99151a-cbe4-4a31-8874-d64f2d675660 1179-3163 6650933 Abies brachytyla Franchet (1899: 258) ≡ Picea brachytyla (Franch.) E.Pritz. in Diels (1900: 216) [ Pinaceae ]. Lectotype (first-step: Rehder & Wilson in Sargent , Pl. Wilson. 2: 33. 1914; second-step: designated here):— CHINA . Sichuan [“ Sutchuen oriental: distr. de Tchen-Kéou-Tin”], 2500, P.G. Farges 806 (P barcode P00731326 [image!]); Isolectotypes: P barcodes P00731327, P00731328, P00731329, P00731330, & P00731334 [images!], K barcode K000554715 [image!], MO barcode MO-3237744 [image!], PE barcode PE 01901662, TNS barcode TNS 01114444 [image!]. Remaining syntypes : China . Yunnan [“ Les bois de Oua pin keou, sur le Ma eul chan, province du Yun-nan ”], 2500, 1889-8-7 , J.M. Delavay 4129 (P barcodes P00731331, P00731332, P00731333[images!]). Note: The current name Picea brachytyla (Franch.) E.Pritz. is based on Abies brachytyla Franch. In the protologue of Abies brachytyla, Franchet (1899) cited two gatherings ( J.M. Delavay 4129 and P.G. Farges 806) and they are to be considered as syntypes . Farjon (2010 , 2017 ) mentioned the syntypes at P for the name of this species and indicated that a type had not been designated, however already Rehder & Wilson (1914: 33) had accomplished a first-step lectotypification by citing Farges 806 as “type” but without indicating a herbarium of deposit. Because this gathering is represented in several herbaria, to fix the application of this name, we select a specimen with cone from one of the gatherings at P (P00731326) as a second-step lectotype ( Fig. 2 ). Although the same specimen was annotated “Type of Abies brachytyla Franch. ” by Fu and Li in 1995 and bears a “[LECTO] TYPE” herbarium sticker, this seems never to have been effectively published until now.