Euphorbia subhastata Visiani & Pančić (1862: 444)

Clementi, Moreno, Vukojičić, Snežana, Lakušić, Dmitar & Kuzmanović, Nevena, 2015, names published by Roberto de Visiani and Josif Pančić in Plantae Serbicae Rariores aut Novae-Decas I, Phytotaxa 202 (2), pp. 121-134 : 130

Euphorbia subhastata Visiani & Pančić (1862: 444)

Type (lectotype designated here):— SERBIA. De rupib[us] M. Kablar Serb[ia] centr[alis] fl. culta, s.d., J. Pančić s.n. (PAD-H0023182!) ( Fig. 7A )

Additional specimens examined:—[ SERBIA]. s.l., s.d., s.c. s.n. (PAD-0023183!) ( Fig. 7B ); SERBIA. M. Kablar, Jul. [1]858, J. Pančić s.n. (BEOU 764!).

Note:—The specimen selected here as lectotype was clearly used to prepare the illustration in the protologue (complete specimen on the left of the iconography, Fig. 7C ). From a letter by Pančić to Visiani (17 October 1858), we discovered that this species was cultivated by Pančić in Belgrade since 1858, from roots collected during an excursion in central Serbia (“nel centro della Serbia ”). Mount Kablar is adjacent to mount Ovčar, which is cited in the protologue. The two localities were certainly visited during the same excursion. The additional specimen in PAD-0023183 that we cite was clearly used to prepare the picture of the flowering stem on the right side of the illustration ( Fig. 6C ) and was almost certainly part of the same gathering as the lectotype. It is, therefore, an isolectotype. It bears Reuter’s remark “bonne éspéce, près de E. iberica Boiss. dont elle différe par les feuilles beaucoup plus profondément [illegible] les caulinaires retuses, la capsule lisse, toute la plante tomentelle” (“good species, close to E. iberica Boiss. , from which it differs by the much more deeply [illegible] leaves, the cauline ones retuse, the smooth capsule, the whole plant slightly tomentose”). The additional specimen in BEOU is also certainly part of the original material. According to Euro+Med (2014) this name is treated as a synonym of Euphorbia agraria Bieberstein (1808: 375) .

Figures

FIGURE 6. Epitype of Goniolimon serbicum Visiani in Visiani & Pančić (1862).

FIGURE 7. A. Lectotype of Euphorbia subhastata Visiani & Pančić (1862). B. Isolectotype of E. subhastata. C. Illustration of E. subhastata in Visiani & Pančić (1862).