Microsoft Word - S-3. Chunle.doc Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon. 15(1): 73-74, 2008 (June) © 2008 Bangladesh Association of Plant Taxonomists - Short communication VALIDATION OF THE NAME PARAPHLOMIS HISPIDA C.Y. WU (LAMIACEAE) XIANG CHUNLEI1 AND PENG HUA2 Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204, Yunnan, China Keywords: Paraphlomis hispida, Lamiaceae, Nomenclature, Validation, China In the course of working on Lamiaceae for regional Floras in Yunnan Province, China, it was found that Paraphlomis hispida C.Y. Wu was not a validly published name under the Article 37.1 in the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (McNeill et al. 2006). Three specimens were cited for Paraphlomis hispida, but none of them was designated as the type of this species in the protologue (Wu 1959). Unfortunately, this problem was not realized in the updated English edition of the Flora of China (Li and Hedge 1994). To enable formal use of the name, Paraphlomis hispida is here validated with one of these three specimens designated as the holotype. As the name and validating diagnosis are ascribed to Wu (1959), under the Article 46.2, C.Y. Wu is the author of the name Paraphlomis hispida. Validation Paraphlomis hispida C.Y. Wu, Sp. Nov. TYPE: China, Yunnan Province: Si-chou, Far- doe, 1,300 m, forest floor, 8 Dec. 1939, C.W. Wang 85447 (Holotype: Herbarium, Kunming Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica (KUN)); China, Yunnan, Mar-li-po, Tung-ting, 1,200-1,500 m, in open thickets, 22 Nov. 1947, K.M. Feng 13539 (Paratype: KUN). Validating description and diagnosis are referred to C.Y. Wu in Acta Phytotax. Sin. 8(1): 39 (1959). Paraphlomis hispida is similar to P. patentisetulosa C.Y. Wu ex H.W. Li and P. javanica (Bl.) Prain, their key characters are listed in Table 1. Table 1. A comparison of key features of three Paraphlomis species. Species Stem Petiole Leaf Calyx Nutlet P. hispida Densely retrorse, fine strigose Slender, up to 15 cm Membranous, 3-20 ×1.8-11.5 cm Bristly Truncate P. javanica Retrorse, strigose Slender, up to 8 cm Membranous, 3-15 (-30)× 1.5-8.5 (-14) cm Not bristly Triquetrous P. patentisetulosa Densely fine tawny, patent- setose Flat, 2-8 cm Thin papery, 5.5-14.5 ×2.5-7 cm Bristly Triquetrous 1Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 2Corresponding author. Present address: Herbarium, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China. E-mail: hpeng@mail.kib.ac.cn 74 CHUNLEI AND HUA Paraphlomis hispida is confined to East Asia, known from China (SE Yunnan) and Northern Vietnam. It occurs in dense tropical forests or thickets, at altitude of 1,200- 1,500 m. Acknowledgments This study was funded by Ministry of Science and Technology (Grant no.: 2003CB415103) and Kunming Institute of Botany (Grant no.: KIB-Wu-2001-04), China. The authors are grateful to an anonymous reviewer for his valuable suggestions in revising the manuscript. References Li, X.W. and Hedge, I.C. 1994. Paraphlomis. In: Wu, Z.Y. and Raven, P.H. (eds.), Flora of China. 17: 170- 177. Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. McNeill, J., Barrie, F.R., Burdet, H.M., Demoulin, V., Hawksworth, D.L., Marhold, K., Nicolson, D.H., Prado, J., Silva, P.C., Skog, J.E., Wiersema, J.H. and Turland, N.J. (eds.) 2006. International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Vienna Code). Adopted by the Seventeenth International Botanical Congress Vienna, Austria, July 2005. A.R.G.. Gantner Verlag, Ruggell. [Regnum Veg. 146] Wu, C.Y. 1959. Revisio Labiatarum Sinensium. Acta Phytotax. Sin. 8(1): 1-66. (Manuscript received on 19 October 2007; revised on 28 November 2007)