Dianthus rupicola Bivona Bernardi (1806: 31) subsp. rupicola

Domina, Gianniantonio, Scibetta, Silvia, Scafidi, Filippo & Giovino, Antonio, 2017, Contribution to the identification of Dianthus rupicola (Caryophyllaceae) subspecies using morphological and molecular approaches, Phytotaxa 291 (1), pp. 17-32 : 26-27

Dianthus rupicola Bivona Bernardi (1806: 31) subsp. rupicola .

Type (Lectotype designated here):— Dianthus Bisignani Ten. / Bert. Fl. Ital. 4 p. 551. / n. 6. / D. rupicola Biv. Bern. Cent. / 1. p. 31. n. 26. Tab. 1. / Misit Bivona-Bernardi di Panormo sub nomine Dianthi rupicola sui. / 1805 [Bertoloni] ( BOLO!)

Ind. Loc.:— [Sicily] in fissuris rupium.

= Dianthus bertolonii Woods (1850: 45) ≡ D. rupicola var. bertolonii ( Woods 1850: 45) Arcangeli (1882: 85) .

Type:— No original material traced.

Ind. Loc.:— Maritime Rocks Sic. Cal.

= Dianthus bisignanii Tenore (1811: 228 , tab. XXXIX).

Type (lectotype designated here):—[Icon] Tab. XXXIX in Tenore (1811), image available at http://www.ortobotanico.unina.it/FN/ TavoleFN/t0039.PDF).

Type (epitype designated here):— Dianthus bisignani / Nob. / Calabria [s. d.] [Tenore], / Tenore Misit / Febr. 1827 (K-725247!, image available at http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/getImage.do?imageBarcode=K000725247).

Ind. Loc.:— Coltivasi da molti anni nell’orto botanico del Signor principe di Bisignano, donde è passato nel R. Giardino (= It is cultivated since several years in the Botanical Garden of Sir. Prince of Bisignano, from where it is passed in the Royal Garden].

Notes: — Dianthus rupicola Bivona Bernardi (1806: 31) subsp. rupicola . In the same sheet, which we traced at BOLO, two different plants are included, both have the stem inserted in to a label with a cut. Without doubts are therefore attributable to two different collections. The second individual in the same sheet was sent by Gussone in 1824 and is reported from the limestone cliffs of Sicily and Scilla.

Dianthus bisignanii . In addition to the epitype above designate, three other specimens collected in Calabria by M. Tenore were found at P ( P- 4929917!, P- 4929918!, and P- 4929929!, images available at https://science. mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/p/item/p04929917, https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/p/item/ p049299178, https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/p/item/p04929929) and one at BOLO.All completely fit the diagnosis by Tenore, but we have no evidence that the five found specimens belong to a unique collection and were sent by Tenore to different correspondents in different dates. Thus we here designated, as epitype, the sheet housed in K, which is the better preserved among the five detected.