Gypsophila elegans Bieberstein (1808: 319)

Iamonico, Duilio, 2020, Italian alien species in Caryophyllaceae: nomenclatural remarks, Phytotaxa 446 (5), pp. 291-300 : 298

Gypsophila elegans Bieberstein (1808: 319) .

Neotype (designated here): Caucasus, Terek ad Kafbek, s.d., Bieberstein s.n. (LE 01042983!) ( Fig. 4 ).

Note:— Gypsophila elegans was validly proposed by Bieberstein (1808: 319) in the 1 st volume of his Flora Taurico-Caucasica where a short diagnosis, a detailed description, and the provenance (“Habitat in glareosis torrentis Terek, circa portas caucaficas et alpem Kafbek”) were provided.

One specimen was found at LE (code 01042983) bears some parts of a single plant, and the original label “ Gypsophila elegans | Terek ad Kafbek” which corresponds to the information given in the protologue by Bieberstein (1808: 319). Although this specimen is the only one currently deposited at LE, unfortunately no date of collection was reported, and I cannot be sure that this specimen was a pre-1808 addition to the collection. As a consequence I here designate LE 01042983 as the neotype of the name Gypsophila elegans (Art. 9.8 of ICN).

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FIGURE 4. Lectotype of the name Gypsophila elegans (LE01042983!).