Prostanthera phylicifolia F.Muell. Fragm.

O’Donnell, Ryan P., Bruhl, Jeremy J., Telford, Ian R. H., Wilson, Trevor C., Zimmer, Heidi C., Taseski, Guy M. & Andrew, Rose L., 2023, Molecular and morphological analyses support recognition of Prostanthera volucris (Lamiaceae), a new species from the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australian Systematic Botany 36 (1), pp. 1-20 : 12

Prostanthera phylicifolia F.Muell. Fragm.

1(1): 19 (1858)

Type citation: ‘ In vertice rupestri montis McFarlane altitudine 4–5000’, nec non in rupibus secus rivulos districtus Maneroo.’ [‘At the summit of rocky mountain McFarlane from altitudes of 4–5000’, and also from cliffs or small rivulets in the district Maneroo’] . Type: Australia: Victoria: Eastern Highlands: ‘ Mt M’Farlan’ , s. dat., F. Mueller s.n. (lecto (here designated): K 000975463 , left-hand side of sheet, right-hand sprig); isolecto: K 000975463 , left-hand side of sheet, left-hand sprig; syn: MEL 43499 (right-hand side of sheet) , MEL 43500 ).

Notes

There are several specimens of P. phylicifolia that are considered to be collections made by von Mueller ( MEL 43499: left-hand side, MEL 43501, K 000975461); however, the handwriting on these respective accessions does not match that of Mueller’s and is subsequently of uncertain authorship. Because it is unclear whether these accessions were indeed collected and inspected by Mueller, they are not considered to comprise part of the original material of this name. Specimen K 000975462 is a collection from a locality described in Mueller’s handwriting as ‘Mitta Mitta’. This locality is not mentioned in Mueller’s protologue, and this specimen is therefore not part of the original material for this name.

Because O’Donnell et al. (2021 a) demonstrated that P. phylicifolia sens . str. is restricted to southern New South Wales and Victoria, Mueller’s locality description of ‘ Maneroo’ must be considered to be an early spelling of Monaro (referring to the Monaro region ), and not the rural locality of Maneroo located in Longreach , Queensland. Although specimens bearing the locality description ‘ Maneroo’ ( K000975460 , K000975461 ) appear to be conspecific with the Mount McFarlane specimens, they have been excluded as syntypes because of the uncertain application of this locality name .

Specimen K 000975461 bears a label of uncertain authorship reading ‘var. velutina’, and K 000975462 is similarly labelled with ‘v. velutina’, albeit in this instance written definitively in Mueller’s handwriting. Although Mueller’s protologue describes individuals of P. phylicifolia as ‘glabra v. velutina’ (i.e. glabrous or velutinous; von Mueller 1858, p. 19), neither of these qualifiers are separated by Mueller as named varieties. Therefore, the name P. phylicifolia var. velutina appears to be a manuscript name of no nomenclatural standing that has never been published. O’Donnell et al. (2021 a) found little genetic differentiation among individuals of P. phylicifolia that were predominantly glabrous and individuals that were densely hairy. Because most specimens of P. phylicifolia examined in this study were predominantly glabrous and some of the glabrous syntypes were well endowed with flowers and seemingly fruiting calyces, a representatively glabrous specimen is designated as the lectotype.