Fortuynia bungei Boiss., Fl.

AL-Shehbaz, Ihsan A. & Barriera, Gabrielle, 2019, Typification of Edmond Boissier’s Cruciferae (Brassicaceae) names enumerated in Flora Orientalis, Boissiera 72, pp. 1-193 : 170

Fortuynia bungei Boiss., Fl. Orient. 1: 402. 1867.

Type: “Hab. ubique in Persiâ australi trans desertum magnum et inter Yezd et Ispahan (Bunge!). in deserto circa Djendack (Buhse!), in Affghaniâ occid. ad Anarderch (Bunge!)”.

Lectotypus (designated here): IRAN: “inter Jesd et Isfahan ”, V.1859, Bunge s.n. ( G-BOIS [ G00332669 ]; isolecto-: P [ P00741667 , P00741668 ]) . Syntypus: IRAN: “Persia”, 1847, Buhse 1259 ( G-BOIS [ G00332668 ], LE) .

= Fortuynia garcinii (Burm.) Shuttlew. ex Boiss. in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. ser. 2, 17: 178. 1842.

Notes. – The lectotype is a collection folder of two sheets, the label of one is handwritten by Bunge and the other has a printed label and the species name in Boissier’s handwriting.

No material of Bunge from Afghanistan was found in the Geneva herbaria, and it is likely that such material is at LE. Of the six sheets collected by Bunge and deposited at P, only the above two probably qualify for isolectotypes, though the printed label indicate April instead of May 1859, and the locality data was written in pencil that almost completely faded away.

Although HEDGE (1968: 52–53) and JAFRI (1973: 43) recognized two species in Fortuynia , the former author correctly observed that there is a continuous variation in fruit morphology from being typically emarginate and as long as wide ( F. bungei ) to the acute or slightly emarginate and longer than broad ( F. garcini ) and that such variation can be found within the same population. Therefore, the genus is recognized here as monospecific instead of dispecific ( AL-SHEHBAZ, 2012).