Clinopodium × hostii (Caruel) Bräuchler 2018

Bräuchler, Christian, 2018, And now for something completely different-new names in Clinopodium with comments on some types, Phytotaxa 356 (1), pp. 71-80 : 75

Clinopodium × hostii (Caruel) Bräuchler , comb. nov.

≡ Satureja × hostii Caruel (1884: 125) , non Satureja thymifolia Scop.

≡ × Calamicromeria hostii (Caruel) Šilic (1975: 111) .

≡ × Clinomicromeria hostii (Caruel) Govaerts (1999: 15) .

≡ Clinopodium × thymifolium Kuntze (1891: 516) , nom. illeg.

= Calamintha thymifolia sensu Host , non (Scop.) Host

Nomenclatural notes:— Satureia hostii , although validated by reference to “ Calamintha thymifolia Host fl. austr. ”, is the legitimate name of a new species, as Caruel (1884: 144) treated S. thymifolia Scop. as a synonym of Cuspidocarpus rupestris , a species name that he accepted. Stated to be a hybrid of Micromeria thymifolia (= Clinopodium album ) and C. nepeta . Host´s herbarium is at W constituting the best source for a possible lectotype. There is also a Host specimen of this taxon at K acquired from Bentham´s Herbarium in 1854 [ Calamintha thymifolia Hort. Vind. 17.9.1832, K!].