Zenker’s new fern names in Plantae indicae

ABSTRACT

Zenker described three new fern species in Plantae indicae. His work was based on collections made by Schmid from the Ootacamund region of the Nilgiri hills in South India. Original material was located and lectotypes were selected for Zenker’s fern names.

KEYWORDS:

• Lectotype
• Ootacamund
• Plantae indicae
• Schmid
• Zenker

Acknowledgements

I sincerely thank Prof. J. McNeill (E) for nomenclatural advice and Dr J. Hentschel, Managing Curator (JE) for sending the image of the type. I thank herbaria B, BR, E, L and K for making their collections available online. I thank an anonymous reviewer for significant improvements to the manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.