taxonID	type	description	language	source
03B487B3FFB0995B20BD8404A2DC65E8.taxon	description	Millettia pseudoracemosa Thothathri & Ravikumar (1997: 239) was described on the basis of a single collection (S. Ravikumar 334, Fig. 1: A – B), which was collected on 21 April 1995 from Anamalai Hills, Tamil Nadu, South India. The new species was considered to be similar to M. racemosa (Roxburgh 1832: 329) Bentham (1852: 249) in habit, shape, number and hairiness of leaflets, floral color, and pod shape. The latter species was first described based on specimens also from India, but it has been treated as a monospecific genus Endosamara Geesink (1984: 93) belonging to the tribe Wisterieae because of its true panicles with ebracteole flowers and very peculiar fruits with a lomented endocarp around each seed (Compton et al. 2019). Thothathri & Ravikumar (1997) also pointed out that their new species has a unique character in the genus, i. e. the large sized (2.5 – 3.0 cm long) and violet flowers.	en	Song, Zhu-Qiu (2023): The identities of Millettia pseudoracemosa and M. pulchra var. munnarensis (Fabaceae: Millettieae) from South India. Phytotaxa 591 (1): 55-63, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.591.1.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-22-0755-PDN
03B487B3FFB0995B22B48405A4F560E4.taxon	description	Recently, Balan et al. (2017) described another new taxon of Millettia with large and violet flowers, i. e. M. pulchra (Bentham 1852: 248) Kurz (1873: 69) var. munnarensis Balan & Predeep (2017: 97). Millettia pulchra is a complex species widely distributed from Northeast India to Southern China, and includes seven varieties that hardly distinguished from each other (Wei & Pedley 2010, Song et al. 2017). The authors suggested that this new variety is strikingly different from all the other varieties of M. pulchra in having large flowers (2.8 cm long) and pods with 8 – 10 seeds. It is noted that the holotype and isotypes of this new variety was collected from Munnar, Idukki District, Kerala, South India (S. V. Predeep 20986, Fig. 1: C – D), where is far away from the geographic distribution of all the other varieties of the species (see Map 1 in Balan et al. 2017), but is very near to the type locality of M. pseudoracemosa. In fact, examination of literature and specimens showed that M. pulchra var. munnarensis is quite similar to M. pseudoracemosa in morphology and distribution. Furthermore, when comparing with all the other species of Millettia from India recorded in the literature (Table 1), both M. pseudoracemosa and M. pulchra var. munnarensis cannot be distinguished from M. dura Dunn in various characters, including habit, shape, number and hairiness of leaflets, inflorescence type, size and color of flower, and shape and size of pod (Table 2). Millettia dura was validly published by Dunn (1911), although he just give a simple Latin diagnosis in a key to species. One year later, Dunn (1912) provide a full Latin description and eight collections from Africa, including three gatherings collected by M. T. Dawe (# 452, Fig. 2 A; # 459; # 481, Fig. 2 B) in 1905 from Toro, western Uganda. Some seeds from one of type localities were sent by M. T. Dawe to Kew Royal Botanic Garden at that time. Based on living plants raised from these seeds at Kew, a beautiful colored drawing was published as tab. 8959 in the Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (Stapf 1923; Fig. 2: C – D). These materials are very important for understanding of this taxon, thus a specimen collected by Dawe with a better preservation, i. e. M. T. Dawe 481 (K 000263154), is designated here as the lectotype.	en	Song, Zhu-Qiu (2023): The identities of Millettia pseudoracemosa and M. pulchra var. munnarensis (Fabaceae: Millettieae) from South India. Phytotaxa 591 (1): 55-63, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.591.1.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-22-0755-PDN
03B487B3FFB4995C20BD81E1A7676701.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — UGANDA, Toro, 5000 ft., 1905, M. T. Dawe 481 (lectotype, designated here: K 000263154!).	en	Song, Zhu-Qiu (2023): The identities of Millettia pseudoracemosa and M. pulchra var. munnarensis (Fabaceae: Millettieae) from South India. Phytotaxa 591 (1): 55-63, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.591.1.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-22-0755-PDN
