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.

Published as part of Murugan, Perumal, Murugan, Chidambaram & Karthigeyan, Kaliyamurthy, 2021, Typification of twelve names in the genus Anaphalis DC. (Asteraceae), pp. 197-204 in Adansonia (3) (3) 43 (17) on page 202, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2021v43a17, http://zenodo.org/record/5519428