Hieracium rotundatum Kitaibel ex Schultes (1814: 439)

Szeląg, Zbigniew, 2018, Hieracia balcanica XVI. Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Hieracium rotundatum and H. transylvanicum (Asteraceae), Phytotaxa 382 (2), pp. 227-233 : 228

Hieracium rotundatum Kitaibel ex Schultes (1814: 439) .

Type:― CROATIA. Ex horto, in que[m] e Croatia illatum, P. Kitaibel [Herb. Kitaibel XXVI: 335] (BP, holotype) ( Fig. 1 ).

Note: ― Kerner (1872: 352) treated an ‘old’ specimen labelled as H. rotundatum , which was deposited in the Innsbruck University Herbarium ( IB), as conspecific with H. transylvanicum . He assumed that this specimen came from Kitaibel: ‘… welcher bekanntlich dem seiner Zeit in Innsbruck als Professor der Botanik weilenden Professor Schultes zahlreiche seiner neuen Funde für die Österreichische Flora mitgeteilt hat ’. Even if it had, the species description in the protologue of H. rotundatum does not fit H. transylvanicum , but agrees perfectly with the specimen no. 335 in the Kitaibel’s collection as above ( Fig. 1 ).

A search for the H. rotundatum specimen mentioned by Kerner (1872: 352) was unsuccessful in both Innsbruck herbaria (IB and IBF) (K. Pagitz, pers. comm.), nor is there a specimen of H. rotundatum with Kerner’s, Kitaibel’s or Schultes’ handwriting preserved in the Munich herbarium ( M) (F. Schuhwerk, pers. comm.) where the greater part of the Schultes herbarium is held ( Stafleu & Cowan 1985).

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FIGURE 1. Holotype of Hieracium rotundatum (BP).