Hieracium transylvanicum Heuffel (1858a: 27)

Szeląg, Zbigniew, 2018, Hieracia balcanica XVI. Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Hieracium rotundatum and H. transylvanicum (Asteraceae), Phytotaxa 382 (2), pp. 227-233 : 231

Hieracium transylvanicum Heuffel (1858a: 27) .

Type:― ROMANIA. In sylvis abiegnis versus alpen Retyezat in Cottu Hunyad Transylvaniae, Aug 1852, J. Heuffel (BP 194797, lectotype designated here) ( Fig. 2 ).

Other original material:― ROMANIA. In terra humosa sylvarum ad Thermas Herculis in Banatu, Jun 1857, J. Heuffel (BP 194785) ; In sylvis ad Thermas Herculis in Banatu, 16 Jun 1856, J. Heuffel (BP 194789) .

Note: ―On the labels in Heuffel’s own handwriting, as well as in the protologue, the species epithet was spelled as ‘ transylvanicum ’. The spellings used by subsequent authors are incorrect: ‘ transilvanicum ’ ( Schur 1866; Kerner 1872), ‘ transsylvanicum ’ ( Vukotinović 1876) and ‘ transsilvanicum ’ ( Zahn 1921, 1935; Sell & West 1976; Gottschlich 1987; Schljakov 1989).

The geographical name Transilvania has its origin in the Middle Ages, though different orthographical variants were used through the centuries. The spelling ‘Transilvania’ is given as correct in most recognized vocabularies of medieval Latin ( Graesse & Benedict 1922). Nevertheless, according to Article 60.1 of the ICN ( Turland et al. 2018), the original spelling of the specific epithet used by Heuffel is to be preserved, which is unfortunate from the nomenclatural point of view as H. sect. Transsilvanica has H. transylvanicum as a type ( Schljakov 1989: 244).

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FIGURE 2. Lectotype of Hieracium transylvanicum (BP 194797).