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Nomenclatureand Lectotypification Carexhent:}(,Ciyperaceaej
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New Record from Nepal
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OKIHITo YANoi,TERuo KATsuyAMA2, IKEDAI･*
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MARK F. WATsoN3 AND KEsHAB R.HRIARJoIsBHHIANDARI4
i7he Uhiversity Mtrseum, The Uhiversity of7bkJ 7t-e3-,1 ,Hbngo, Bunkyo-ku, 7bkyo li3-O033, Jopan.
"[email protected],ip (buthorfor corre,spondencel; 2Kanagawa Pre/2?ctura Aldaseum oj'?Vdt IuIirsatolry
499 ,It:yudo ,Odavvara-sh iK,bnagawa 250-O031 j,4pan; 'RqyalBotanic Garden Edinbuilgh,
20a lnverlei tRhow, Edinbu,lg EhH3 5LR, Scotlan dU:K: `G. R O, Box P446, Kdthmandu, Nepal.
The nomenclature of Carex hent: y(iCyperac eias dei)scusse dwi,th ctarification of authorship and desig-
nation ofa lectoty pfeor the basionym C. tongierur iNsees var. henr:y iC. B. Clarke. Carex hently iwas
thought te be endemic to China ,but here we report it soccurrence in the Manaslu Himalaya in central
Nepal.
Key words: Ckerex ,CZ7rex hentlyi C,arex longicruris ,Cyperaceae
C. B. Clarke originally recognized the dis- herbarium collections as having been annotated
tinctiveness of Carex hent:y wihile studying Chi- by Clarke ,C, hent:y wias not accepted by Fran-
nese collections in the Royal Botanic Gardens, chet and was not formall ydescribe dand re-
Kew, and the Natura lHistor yMuseum, London, mained a nomen nudum. Therefbre, this name
in the 1880s-1890s. Clarke annotated several hetL should not be referred to as C. henr:y Ci. B. Clarke
barium specimens with the name C henr:yi ,but ex Franch.
did not formall ypublish the name, While re- The firs vtalid publicatio nofthe name was by
searching Asian materials fbr his Les Carex de Clarke himself seven years late rb,ut by then he
L:4sia Orientai (eFranc h1e89t6) ,Franchet exam- considered it a variety of Carex longicruri sNees;
ined the specimens Clarke had annotated, but as C tongicruri svar. hen,:y iC. B. Clarke (1903).
all were vegetative he did not includ ethem as a Clarke made reference to Franchet 'easrlier use of
inhis ly his (citedC. henryiC. B.
separate species pubtication a,nd on made manuscript name as
reference to them under his new species, C bodi- Clarke ex Franch. based on the nomenclatural
nieri Franch. (1896 2:43) with the note "M. C. B. rules in use at that time) and also included Diels'
Clarke signale aussi, in litt u,n, C. Hent:yi ,de la (190 0mi)sapplied C. Iongicrur iNsees from Tbh-
Chine centrale (Henr yn,OS 4266, 4495, 7502, enfbngchan, Yunnan, as a synonym, Clarke pro-
5185, 5186; Faber: mont Omei nO 1 153, et Kiangsi, vided a short diagnosi s"p,anicula magnis effusa,
nO 1188) d,ontje ne connais que les feuille est, qui ramo imo sacpe 6-1O unc. Iongo ;utriculo minore"
doit etr evoisin du C Bodinieri ["Mr C., B. Clarke [Pani cllearg eand loosel yspreading, lower
also describe di,n manuscript, a C. henp:y firom branches often 6-10 inche slong, utricle smaller],
Central China,,.. Ionly know the leaves ,which and cited eight specimens:
are very closely related to C. bodinieri .S]o.me
authors, e.g. Koyama (195 6an)d Dai (2000 c)on,- CHEKIANG [ZHEJIANG] :Ningpo Mts (Finbe4
sidered this to be the firs vtalid publicati oofnthe 1402!6)6 ;!H)UN,PaEnHto ([AH,UHeBnEfIl]y :4,I4c9h5a!n) g,C[hYaincgyhaann gg((]AA ..HHebnnrnyyM
name C. hently iA.lthough Franchet cited seven Z502!) ,Patung [B adong( ]A.Hbnt: y,5JS5,5186 !)S ;ZECH-
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UAN [SICHUAN] :Mt, Omei [Eme iShan], 4000 feet It has a labe lwith Clarke' shandwritin gand illus-
(Shfaunb]e( LDlie5l3a! )vY;aUNyMNu!As)N.:.Br iTtc.[heNnaftbungrHcaihlsa tn[oCrhyMeunsge-umf,eng-trations ,and matches well the original descrip-
Loncl on,BM]; Her b,Ke w [R oyalBota nicGard ens,Kew, tion of the flera clharacters (Fi g1.).
K].
Carexhenryi(C,B.Clarke)K. T.Fu inInstituto
Clarke ended the account with the comment Botanico Boreali-Occidental iAcademiae Sini-
"Neither C longicruri tsy,pe, nor this var. Hent:yi cae, Fl, Tsinlingensi s1, Spermatophyt a(l )2:64
has been seen from North-eas Itndia", (1976).
After examining more material from China, Carex longicrur Nieses var. henrl yCi, B, Clark ein J.
late rauthors revised Clarke's taxonemy and con- Linn ,Soc. Bot. 36: 295 (190 3-)Z).pe. CHINA, Hebei,
cluded that Clarke's initi aelpinion that it was a Yichang, A. Hent:y 4266 (Lectoty pK!e, designated here,
distin cstpecies was correct. The firs utse of the lselectetype sK!, BM!, E!) ;KUk. in Engler, Pflanzenr .IV-
name Carex hen71y iwas in Flora Tsinlingensis 2102 68(H(e1f9 t3386)): ,603 (1909 )H;and.-Mazz., Symb. Sin .7:
yol. 1 (Insti tBuottaonico Boreali-Occidentali C arex hentl yCi, B, Clark eex Franch. in Nouv. Arch.
Academiae Sinica e1976) where the authorship of Mus, 3e Ser. 8: 243 (1896 )no,m. nud.; T. Koyama. Jap. J.
the name was cited as Clark eex Franch., but with Bot. 15: 175 (1956 )lc;on. Cormophyt. Sin. 5: 322, t. 7474
fu1 1and direc treference to Clarke' Cs. Iongicru- (l976 )C;. Z. Zheng, in Q. Liu ,FI .Zhejian g7: 296, f.
ris var. heni:y iT.his account is the firs vtalid pub- 7-402 (1993 )Va;sc. P]. Hengduan Mts. 2: 2383 (1994 )L;.
K.Dai,S.J.Liang& S.R.Zhang inR.C.Fang,Fl.Yun-
licati oonf the name at species rank despit ethe nan , 15 : 7 88 , t 185 , f i 5- 8 (2003 ).
error in citation of authorship which according to C. hency i(C .B, Clarke )L, K, Dal in L. K. Dai & S. Y.
the ICBN can be corrected (McNeil elt aL 2006: Liang, Fl. Reipubl, Popularis Sin. 12: 439, t, 89, f i5-8
ICBN Art. 33.5.). (2000 )Z;. Y. Wu et al,, Fl. China 23: 433 (2010).
Although no direc treference to the author of Carex longierur aiusct, non Nees, Diel sin Bot. Jah rb.
Syst.29:230 (1900),
the treatment of Cyperaceae was given in the
body ofthe text ,new species were fu1l ydescribed
and authorship given to each species in an appen- Discovery in Nepal
dix at the end of the volume. All the new species
ofCyperaceae were describe dby Kun-Tsun Fu in Carex henrty iis similar in gross morphology
Flora Tsinlingensi svol. 1, so it is reasonable to to C. tongieruri sb,ut differ isn having loosely
deduce that he was the author of the Cyperaceae spreading panicles (compa citn C longieruris)
account in the main text .Later authors have inde- and utricles les sthan 3.5 mm long (mor ethan 4
pendentl ypublishe dCarex henryi at species mm in C. Iongicruris )C.arex longicrblr iiss dis-
rank, e.g. Dai (2000 a)nd Dai & Koyama (2010),tribute dacross the Himalaya (Kashm itro Bhu-
but those combinations are superfluous. We tan) and the Nilghir Miountains (KUkent h1a9l09,
therefore propose the correct name for C. henr:yi Koyama 1978), wltile C. hent:y wias previQusly
to be (C .B. Clarke) K, T. Fu, reported as a Chinese endemic from Anhui, Hu-
bei ,Guizhou, Shaanxi ,Sichuan ,Yunnan, and
Lectotypification ZhejiangProvinces(Dai& Koyama 2010).
During a botanica elxpedition in 2008 around
Clarke (190 3ci)ted eight specimens when he the Manaslu Himalaya, central Nepal (Iked &a
describedCarex longicruris henilyi(see Watson2010), fbunddarexhenryiin
var, we wet aF
above), without designatin hgolotype T.hese rep- eas at fores tmargins at about 2270 m above sea
resent the original material from which a leete- level (Fi g2,) ,The collection of C. henr:y ifirom
type should be chosen. Among specimens in K, Manang Distr. ,Gho!Tilche-Thonche-Dharapa-
BM, and duplicat eats E, we found ten sheets that ni-Tletl, 2270 m alt, (H lIkedu ,S. Nbshiro ,T
might have been used by Clarke ,From these we Kawahara, M E Plhtso nO,. }hno ,Ai t}bmamoto,
selectA, Henr:y 4266 (K; Fig. 1) ,as the lectotype, Z.-H Lee, M N Subedi & S, KL Acha,lya
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20814J16 ,15 Aug. 2008, E, KATH, TI) ,is the NEPAL. Manang District ,Gho=I'i]che-Thonche-
firs wte are aware of from Nepal, and from out- Dharapani-Tal, 2270 m, H. Ikecla ,S, ?Voshiro ,Z Kawa-
hara,M E PV2itsonO,. }2ino,N. }lrmamoto,Z,-H.Lee,MZ
side China. 7VSu be di & S.K, Ach a,lya 20 8141i6,15A ug.2 008 (E,
KATH, TI).
Description
(mainlbyased on Nepalesematerial)
We wish to extend our appreciation to Dr, Lokendra R.
Herbs, perennia l.Rhizomes short, woody. Sharma, fbrmer Director ofthe Department of Plant Re-
Culms central, tufted, 80-140 cm tall, longer seorunrmceesn,t MofiNneipsatl,ry offo Fr hories sgtusi adndan cSeo ianl dCo anssseirstvaantcieo ni,n Gcoonv--
than leaves ,acutely trigonous, smooth. Basal ductin gfiel dresearch in NepaL .We also thank the cura-
sheaths dark brown. Leaves basa land cauline, tors of BM and K fbr access to specimens, and Dr. Hideaki
blade 2.5-4 mm wide, both surfaces and margins Ohba, Professor ETneritu softhe University of ibkyo, Dr,
scabrous. Inflorescenc elax, panicl ewith many Hideteshi Nagamasu, Kyoto University ,and Dr. Koji Yo-
5-8,fascicle4s 5 from nekura, Tohoku Universit yf,or their invaluab lceorn-
spikes, nodes or each ments on the nomenclature. This study was partly sup-
node, peduncles slender. Bracts leafili kewi,th ported by a Grant-in-A ifdor Scientifi cResearch (A) ,no.
sheaths; lower blade slonge rthan spikes, upper 1825500 4(t oDr. Hideak iOhba) and no. 2325500S (t oH.
blade sshorter. Spikes androgynous. Female I. )from the Japan Societ yfo rthe Premotion ofScience,
glumes brownish ,ovate, shorter than utricle, ca. and facilita ttehrdough a visiting fe11owshi tpo the UK (to
2.5 long, brownish O.Y.) with support from the Royal Society ofEdinburgh.
mm membranaceous, green,
costate, apex acute. Utricle syellowis hgreen,
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