taxonID	type	description	language	source
03CD87DEFF927C3BC0E7FE08FB2FFC1F.taxon	description	Strobilanthes aprica is a well-known species of southern China, Laos, northern Vietnam, northern Thailand and the Shan region of Myanmar and is especially common around Hong Kong.	en	Albertson, Winston D., Wood, Hn. R. I. (2012): Forgotten types of Strobilanthes (Acanthaceae) in The Central National Herbarium, Kolkata, India. Phytotaxa 43: 49-60, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.43.1.2, URL: http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.43.1.2
03CD87DEFF927C3BC0E7FC58FC27F860.taxon	description	The names Strobilanthes elongata and S. paucinervia were published simultaneously in the Flora of British India under consecutive numbers. Both types are poor specimens, which are housed at K and apparently not duplicated elsewhere. The two names refer to the same species and we have chosen the name S. elongata as this epithet characterises the inflorescence of this species whereas “ paucinervia ” may be misleading, Helfer K. D. 6115, having only incomplete leaves, apparently with 5 – 6 pairs of nerves whereas around 11 appears more characteristic of this species. In all other respects the type specimens seem identical. Additionally, there is a problem about where S. paucinervia was collected. According to the label it was collected in either Tenasserim (Myanmar) or the Andaman Islands, from where neither S. elongata or any similar species is known. The material was distributed from Kew and it is possible there was a mix-up, not only with the location but also with the collector. As far as is known S. elongata is restricted to N. E. India and Helfer never collected in that region. S. furcata Biswas represents the same species and it is unsurprising that Biswas considered it a novelty as neither the types of S. elongata nor of S. paucinervia were present at CAL. Strobilanthes elongata is related to species placed by Bremekamp (1944) in the genus Semnostachya Bremek, all of which share a spicate inflorescence with persistent bracts and bracteoles, both of which usually resemble the calyx lobes, combined with a glabrous, bent corolla and prolate, pseudocolpate pollen. It is very similar to the little-known Chinese species Strobilanthes myura H. Léveillé, from which it can be separated by little more than geographical distribution. Both species are of a characteristic pale green colour because of the abundant cystoliths and have linear-lanceolate bracts and bracteoles.	en	Albertson, Winston D., Wood, Hn. R. I. (2012): Forgotten types of Strobilanthes (Acanthaceae) in The Central National Herbarium, Kolkata, India. Phytotaxa 43: 49-60, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.43.1.2, URL: http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.43.1.2
03CD87DEFF917C3FC0E7FA8BFB92FD4C.taxon	description	The specimen agrees well with the description and comments in the prologue and might be part of the original material seen by Kurz and thus be appropriate for selection as a lectotype. However, there are major discrepancies between the location given in the protologue and that of the label. We have, therefore, thought it best to select it as a neotype. Strobilanthes fimbriata is known from Bangladesh (Chittagong Hills), Myanmar (Kachin and Pegu Yoma) and India, where it grows in Arunachal Pradesh (Abor Hills) and Meghalaya (Khasia Hills). Like S. elongata, it belongs to the group of species placed by Bremekamp (1944) in Semnostachya but to a subgroup, in which the leaves turn blackish-green when dried.	en	Albertson, Winston D., Wood, Hn. R. I. (2012): Forgotten types of Strobilanthes (Acanthaceae) in The Central National Herbarium, Kolkata, India. Phytotaxa 43: 49-60, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.43.1.2, URL: http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.43.1.2
03CD87DEFF917C3FC0E7FA8BFB92FD4C.taxon	description	Although Clarke (1884: 449) treated this species as a synonym of Strobilanthes falconeri, examination of the type at CAL shows this to be an error. It is, in fact, the oldest name for a plant later described by Clarke as S. lilacina based on a specimen collected by Hosseus in Thailand. Apart from Kurz’s collection this species is only known from the Chiangmai district in Thailand and its existence raises the question of whether it was actually collected in what is now Thailand, rather than in what is now Myanmar. Taungoo lies at approximately 18 ° 56 ʹN 96 ° 26 ʹE, some 150 kilometres west of the border between Myanmar and Thailand. At the very least it is reasonable to suppose that Kurz collected this plant in the mountains lying east of Taungoo city close to the Thai border, if not in present-day Thailand.	en	Albertson, Winston D., Wood, Hn. R. I. (2012): Forgotten types of Strobilanthes (Acanthaceae) in The Central National Herbarium, Kolkata, India. Phytotaxa 43: 49-60, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.43.1.2, URL: http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.43.1.2
03CD87DEFF917C3FC0E7FA8BFB92FD4C.taxon	description	Strobilanthes lamioides is a somewhat mysterious species as it does not appear to have been collected again since the two original collections cited by Anderson. It appears to be closest to S. torrentium Benoist (= S. imlayae J. R. I. Wood), which is known from Myanmar, eastern India and China but differs in its rounded, sparsely pilose bracts. Although Anderson described the bracts as “ glandular-tomentose, ciliate ”, this is not obvious from the specimens at CAL. Another uncertainty relates to the type locality, which we have been unable to identify with any current place name.	en	Albertson, Winston D., Wood, Hn. R. I. (2012): Forgotten types of Strobilanthes (Acanthaceae) in The Central National Herbarium, Kolkata, India. Phytotaxa 43: 49-60, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.43.1.2, URL: http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.43.1.2
03CD87DEFF917C3FC0E7FA8BFB92FD4C.taxon	description	Strobilanthes brandisii is part of a complex of species, which includes S. lamioides, and S. falconeri T. Anderson, the type specimen of which is at K (Falconer 423). They were all published by Anderson in the same paper. Although their close relationship was not noted by Anderson, it was commented on by Clarke (1884: 449) and is immediately apparent from the type specimens. S. falconeri is the most distinct of the three species because of the ovate bracts and the presence of long silky hairs which cover the capitula and to a lesser extent the stem and leaves. Both S. brandisii and S. lamioides have spathulate bracts but the former is a canescent-pilose plant with copious white indumentum on the inflorescence, whereas in the latter the inflorescence is only thinly pubescent. Strobilanthes brandisii is known from Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, where it is common. The type locality is presumably in the hills lying east of Taungoo (18 ° 56 ʹN 96 ° 26 ʹE).	en	Albertson, Winston D., Wood, Hn. R. I. (2012): Forgotten types of Strobilanthes (Acanthaceae) in The Central National Herbarium, Kolkata, India. Phytotaxa 43: 49-60, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.43.1.2, URL: http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.43.1.2
03CD87DEFF967C3FC0E7FC87FB46FABB.taxon	description	Strobilanthes mastersii is most abundant in China being well-known from SE Tibet (Xixang) and Yunnan (Hu et al, 2011) but the earliest collections are from India. Although no precise localities for this species are known from India, it is most likely to occur in Arunachal Pradesh near the border with Tibet.	en	Albertson, Winston D., Wood, Hn. R. I. (2012): Forgotten types of Strobilanthes (Acanthaceae) in The Central National Herbarium, Kolkata, India. Phytotaxa 43: 49-60, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.43.1.2, URL: http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.43.1.2
03CD87DEFF967C3DC0E7FA3CFB96FF5B.taxon	materials_examined	INDONESIA. Java, Blume 1298 (L!).	en	Albertson, Winston D., Wood, Hn. R. I. (2012): Forgotten types of Strobilanthes (Acanthaceae) in The Central National Herbarium, Kolkata, India. Phytotaxa 43: 49-60, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.43.1.2, URL: http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.43.1.2
03CD87DEFF967C3DC0E7FA3CFB96FF5B.taxon	description	Strobilanthes moschifera is widely distributed in S. E. Asia being known from Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia (Java).	en	Albertson, Winston D., Wood, Hn. R. I. (2012): Forgotten types of Strobilanthes (Acanthaceae) in The Central National Herbarium, Kolkata, India. Phytotaxa 43: 49-60, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.43.1.2, URL: http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.43.1.2
03CD87DEFF967C3DC0E7FA3CFB96FF5B.taxon	description	Strobilanthes polythrix is evidently a very rare species. Apart from the type collection it is only known from a Kurz collection from the Khasi Hills, which may be a duplicate of the type, and Prain s. n. in 1886 from Palma Lodge, which may be in Nagaland. Both these collections are at CAL. There have been no collections for 125 years and this species might be extinct. It has never been collected with corollas and its pollen is unknown but it appears to be related to S. elongata, S. fimbriata, S. abbreviata Y. F. Deng & J. R. I. Wood and similar species placed by Bremekamp in Semnostachya Bremekamp.	en	Albertson, Winston D., Wood, Hn. R. I. (2012): Forgotten types of Strobilanthes (Acanthaceae) in The Central National Herbarium, Kolkata, India. Phytotaxa 43: 49-60, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.43.1.2, URL: http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.43.1.2
03CD87DEFF967C3DC0E7FA3CFB96FF5B.taxon	description	on the type specimen of S. paucinervia. If this supposition could be proved, then S. paucinervia would be a superfluous name and S. remota would be the correct name for S. elongata.	en	Albertson, Winston D., Wood, Hn. R. I. (2012): Forgotten types of Strobilanthes (Acanthaceae) in The Central National Herbarium, Kolkata, India. Phytotaxa 43: 49-60, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.43.1.2, URL: http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.43.1.2
03CD87DEFF947C3DC0E7FACBFD6DF877.taxon	description	Strobilanthes spicata is apparently endemic to the Khasi hills of Meghalaya but is not easily separated from S. forrestii Diels from China. Both have a bent corolla, pubescent on the exterior and a calyx in which one lobe in fruit is noticeably longer than the others. However, they are probably best maintained as distinct species as they are geographically separated and the leaves of Indian S. spicata are very shortly petiolate, more or less tomentose and serrate whereas those of S. forrestii are sessile, merely pilose and often subentire or weakly dentate. These differences, however, are not very substantial. A photograph is provided to facilitate comparison between these two species (Figure 6 B).	en	Albertson, Winston D., Wood, Hn. R. I. (2012): Forgotten types of Strobilanthes (Acanthaceae) in The Central National Herbarium, Kolkata, India. Phytotaxa 43: 49-60, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.43.1.2, URL: http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.43.1.2
03CD87DEFF9A7C30C0E7FAEAFE82FD01.taxon	description	In his description of Ruellia anisophylla, Hooker stated that he “ received this singular plant at our Botanic Garden (that is, in Glasgow, where Hooker was then working) from Mr Mackay, nurseryman of Islington, to whom it was sent from the Calcutta Botanic garden, ” where it had been cultivated from plants collected by Wallich in Nepal. This indicates that the drawing was based on the cultivated plant but there is clearly an error about its native origin. Strobilanthes anisophylla is not known from Nepal and all the specimens in the Wallich herbarium are from Sylhet (Khasi Hills) and the Calcutta Botanic Garden. Examination of Hooker’s herbarium, now at K, reveals no suitable specimen which could be selected as a lectotype so the readily identifiable image in Hooker’s Exotic Flora is here selected as lectotype instead. Strobilanthes anisophylla has been widely cultivated, but is only known as a native plant from Bhutan, the West Bengal Duars and Meghalaya. It seems most likely that cultivated plants originated from Meghalaya as neither Bhutan not the West Bengal Duars had been visited by botanists at the time of its introduction to cultivation. It should be noted that Strobilanthes isophylla is merely a form of S. anisophylla only known in cultivation.	en	Albertson, Winston D., Wood, Hn. R. I. (2012): Forgotten types of Strobilanthes (Acanthaceae) in The Central National Herbarium, Kolkata, India. Phytotaxa 43: 49-60, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.43.1.2, URL: http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.43.1.2
