Viola nana (DC.) Le Jolis (1860: 27–28)

Magrini, Sara & Scoppola, Anna, 2015, Further studies in Viola Sect. Melanium (Violaceae). Identity and typification of Viola nana and V. henriquesii, two neglected European Atlantic taxa, Phytotaxa 230 (3), pp. 259-266 : 262

Viola nana (DC.) Le Jolis (1860: 27–28)

Basionym:— Viola tricolor L. var. nana De Candolle (1824: 304) .

Synonyms:— Viola nana (DC.) Godron (1875: 166) ≡ Viola arvensis Murray var. nana (DC.) Besnou (1881: 45) ≡ Viola nana (DC.) Corbière (1893: 81) ≡ Viola kitaibeliana Shult. var. nana (DC.) Rouy et Foucaud (1896: 47) ,

Lectotype (designated here): — FRANCE. Lower Normandy: “Cueillie le 27 avril 1816 sur les côtes du Cap Carteret et le 5 mai suivant à Bizou, sur les dunes mousseuses (Dpt de la Manche.)”, 27 April and 5 May 1816, Gay s.n. ( G00209966 !, sub V. pygmaea Gay ; Fig. 1A ).

Notes: —We selected the lectotype of V. nana among the original material of V. tricolor L. var. nana DC. (Art. 7.3, McNeill et al. 2012) in the Herbier De Candolle (G-DC) that includes the specimens used for the redaction of the De Candolle’s Prodromus (Art. 9.2, McNeill et al. 2012). Particularly, two specimens are mounted on the chosen herbarium sheet, one, sub V. tenella Poir. , collected in Asia Minor by C. Rostan in 1808, and the other, sub V. pygmaea Gay , and revised as V. kitaibeliana by M. Espeut, 2000, collected by Gay himself on April–May 1816 on mossy dunes on the coast of Cape Carteret and next to Bizou in Manche, a French department in Lower Normandy, a part of the so-called Neustria. Thus, according to Art. 9.14 of the Code ( McNeill et al. 2012), we chose the latter specimen from Normandy (G00209966!) as a lectotype ( Fig. 1A ).

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FIGURE 1. A) Lectotype specimen of Viola nana (DC.) Le Jol. preserved in G-DC (G00209966!) and B) another Gay’s specimen preserved in S (S14-21218!).