Biscutella boetica Boiss. & Reut.

Vicente, Alicia, Alonso, Ángeles, Gautier, Laurent & Crespo, Manuel B., 2016, Revisiting the lectotype of Biscutella boetica (Brassicaceae), Phytotaxa 268 (4), pp. 291-295 : 294

Biscutella boetica Boiss. & Reut. in Boissier (1854: 42). Lectotypus (here designated):— SPAIN. “in campis siccis montosis circâ Malagam et praecipué al Cerro, au nord de la Ville, 30 Aprili” (G barcode G-00418100!). Fig. 2 .

= Biscutella apula var. [α] megacarpaea Boissier (1839: 55) , pro parte [syn. excl.]. Lectotypus (here designated):— SPAIN. The same specimen (G barcode G-00418100!).

Notes:—Despite the orthographical variant “ baetica ” has sometimes been applied to the concerned name, it seems that Boissier (1854) intended to use the form B. boetica , as deduced from comparison with the different typography in the name B. magacarpaea which was described in page 44 of the same work. Therefore, according to Art. 61.1 of the ICN the name should be retained in its original spelling. Although Boissier, when describing B. boetica , certainly considered it to include his previous B. apula var. megacarpaea (referred to as “ B. apula β megacarpaea ”), he did not use the same epithet at the specific rank, and both names may have different types. Therefore, we have deliberately chosen here the same lectotype for both names in order to remark Boissier’s intention and to simplify the nomenclature in this case.

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FIGURE 2. Lectotype of B. boetica Boiss. & Reut. (G barcode G-00418100), designated here. © Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève.