Gentianella obtusifolia (F.W. Schmidt) Holub (1967: 118)

Reich, Dieter, Mráz, Patrik, Šída, Otakar & Gutermann, Walter, 2023, A long history in a short note-identity and typification of the name Hippion obtusifolium F. W. Schmidt, and synonymy of the species Gentianella obtusifolia (Gentianaceae), Phytotaxa 598 (2), pp. 157-166 : 163-164

Gentianella obtusifolia (F.W. Schmidt) Holub (1967: 118) .

Basionym: Hippion obtusifolium Schmidt (1793a: 27) ≡ Gentiana obtusifolia (F.W. Schmidt) Willdenow (1798: 1347) ≡ Eyrythalia obtusifolia (F.W. Schmidt) Berchtold & Presl (1823: 18) ≡ Gentiana germanica var. obtusifolia (F.W. Schmidt) Fries (1845: 16) ≡ Opsanthe obtusifolia (F.W. Schmidt) Fourreau (1869: 120) ≡ Gentiana amarella subsp. obtusifolia (F.W. Schmidt) Arcangeli (1882: 474) ≡ Gentiana germanica subsp. obtusifolia (F.W. Schmidt) Rouy (1908: 270)

Lectotype (designated by Skalický (1969: 143):—[Icon.] Hippion obtusifolium ( Schmidt 1793a: tab. 147). Fig. 1 .

Epitype ( designated here):— AUSTRIA. Salzburg, Salzburg-Umgebung district. Untersberg, between cable car mountain station and Salzburger Hochthron, approx. 310m SW of mountain station, 2 September 2011, J. Greimler s.n., WU [ WU 0072860 ,!].

Isoepitypes:—PRC [ PRC 456034,!], W [ W 0100967 ,!].

Remaining original material:— AUSTRIA . Ex fissuris rupium in alpibus Salisburgensibus, s.d., [ J. Jirasek ] s.n., PRC [ PRC s.n.,!].

— AUSTRIA . De summis alpibus Salisburgensibus, dictis Tannegebürg, s.d., [ J. Jirasek ] s.n., PRC [ PRC s.n.,!].

— AUSTRIA . De summibus cucuminibus ad nives alpium Salisburgensium, s.d., [ J. Jirasek ] s.n., PRC [ PRC 456085, PRC 456086, PRC 456087,!].

Possible remaining original material:— CZECH REPUBLIC. Bergreichenstein, s.d. [J. Jirasek?] s.n., PR [PR 134598,!].

Synonymy:

= Gentiana gracilis Nees (1818: 176) – [Described from Germany, Bavaria: “aus der Gegend von München”]

= Gentiana montana Nees (1818: 170) , nom illeg.: non G. montana Forster (1786: 21)

= Gentiana germanica var. praecox Grisebach (1838: 244–245) p.p. (excl. syn. G. crispata ) ≡ Gentiana obtusifolia var. praecox (Griseb.) Beck (1893: 941) – [Described from Austria, Carinthia: “in Alpibus e. c. pr. Heiligenblut”]

= Gentiana aspera Hegetschw. & Heer in Hegetschweiler (1838 /39: 210) ≡ Gentiana polymorpha subsp. aspera (Hegetschw. & Heer) Dostál (1949: 1144) ≡ Gentianella aspera (Hegetschw. & Heer) Dostál ex Skalický, Chrtek & Gill (1966: 92) ≡ Gentianella obtusifolia subsp. aspera (Hegetschw. & Heer) Holub (1967: 120) – [Described from Switzerland: “in den Glarner- und anderen Alpen”]

= Gentiana obtusifolia var. spatulata [Bartl. ex Rchb.] Reichenbach (1854: 5) p.p. ≡ Gentiana germanica [subsp. obtusifolia] var. spathulata (Rchb. f.) Rouy (1908: 270) – [Described from Austria: Salzburg “Salisburgi” (based on plants collected by Hoppe)]

= Gentiana sturmiana A. Kern. & Jos. Kern. in Kerner (1882: 122–123) ≡ Gentiana germanica var. sturmiana (A. Kern. & Jos. Kern.) Beck (1893: 940) ≡ Gentiana polymorpha subsp. sturmiana (A. Kern. & Jos. Kern.) Wettstein (1900: 318) ≡ Gentiana aspera subsp. sturmiana (A. Kern. & Jos. Kern.) Ronniger (1910: 304) ≡ Gentianella sturmiana (A. Kern. & Jos. Kern.) Börner (1912: 542) ≡ Gentiana aspera var. sturmiana (A. Kern. & Jos. Kern.) Schinz & Thellung (1914: 275) ≡ Gentianella obtusifolia subsp. sturmiana (A. Kern. & Jos. Kern.) Holub (1967: 120) – [Described from Austria: Lower Austria “ad Baumgarten et Bergern prope urbem Mautern” and Upper Austria “ad pedem montis Sarstein ad Hallstatt”, respectively]

= Gentiana chlorifolia var. macrocalyx Čelakovský (1890: 447) – [Described with respect to plant material from the Alps: “aus mehreren Alpenländern …, aus Tirol, Salzburg, Baiern, …”]

= Gentiana anisodonta var. trichoneura Borbás in Pacher (1892: 106) – [Described from Austria: Carinthia “Heiligenblut”]

= Gentiana norica A. Kern. & Jos. Kern. in Kerner (1893: 56–57) ≡ Gentiana polymorpha subsp. norica (A. Kern. & Jos. Kern.) Wettstein (1900: 318) ≡ Gentiana aspera subsp. norica (A. Kern. & Jos. Kern.) Ronniger (1910: 304) ≡ Gentianella obtusifolia subsp. norica (A. Kern. & Jos. Kern.) Holub (1967: 120) – [Described from Austria: Styria “In pratis humidis ad lacum Grundlsee” and Upper Austria “In pratis alpium vallis Hinterstoder”, respectively]

= Gentiana germanica var. pygmaea Glaab (1893: 95) ≡ Gentiana sturmiana var. pygmaea (Glaab) Wettstein (1900: 316) p.p. ≡ Gentiana aspera var. pygmaea (Glaab) Hayek (1912: 352) – [Described from Austria: Salzburg “Untersberg”]

= Gentiana norica f. calycinoidea Keller (1898: 317) = Gentiana aspera var. calycinoidea (L. Keller) Wettst. in Dörfler (1898: no. 3751) – [Described from Austria: Styria / Upper Austria “Am grossen Pyrgass”]

= Gentiana norica f. anisiaca Nevole (1906: 159) ≡ Gentiana aspera [subsp. norica] f. anisiaca (Nevole) Hayek (1912: 352) – [Described from Austria: Styria without further indications]

= Gentiana sturmiana f. anisiaca Nevole (1906: 160) ≡ Gentiana aspera [subsp. sturmiana] f. nevoleana Hayek (1912: 352) [non G. norica f. anisiaca Nevole ] – [Described from Austria: Styria without further indications]

= Gentiana aspera [var. norica] f. pusilla C.J. [Carl Joseph] Mayer ex Hegi (1927: 2036) ] – [Described without further indications]

- Gentiana spathulata auct.: Bartl. ex Reichenbach (1823: 78) p.p. (quoad illustr. & specimina Hoppei (et Bartlingii?); excl. syn. G. chlorifolia ), nom. illeg.: nom. superfl. pro Gentiana chlorifolia Nees (1818: 171)

- Gentiana polymorpha Wettstein (1897: 373) , nom. illeg.: nom. superfl. pro Gentiana germanica Willdenow (1798: 1346) p.p. (quoad subsp. norica et sturmiana )

- [?] Gentiana uniflora Willdenow (1798: 1346) , nom. illeg.: non Gentiana uniflora Georgi (1775: 203) p.p – [Described from the Czech Republic / Germany / Poland: “alpinis Sudetorum…” and Germany: Bavaria “… et Bavariae”, respectively]

Figures

FIGURE 1. Schmidt´s first illustration (Schmidt 1793b: tab. 147) of Hippion obtusifolium cited in the protologue (Schmidt 1793a) and designated as lectotype by Skalický (1969). The illustration shows a plant with predominantly pentamerous corollae plus a single tetramerous one; the presumably unique copy is held by the National Library of the Czech Republic / Národní knihovna České republiky (16 AA 29/T. 2).