Gelasia villosa (Scop.) Cass.

Bartolucci, Fabrizio, Galasso, Gabriele & Conti, Fabio, 2020, Nomenclatural novelties and typification of names in Scorzonera sensu lato (Asteraceae, Cichorieae) for the Italian vascular flora, Phytotaxa 437 (5), pp. 279-290 : 280

Gelasia villosa (Scop.) Cass. in Cuvier (1821: 286) subsp. villosa ≡ Scorzonera villosa Scopoli (1771: 97) subsp.

villosa

Type (lectotype, designated here):— [ ICON] pl. 46 fig. 952 in Scopoli (1771, image available at https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/ 10348/?offset=#page=112&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q=). Epitype (designated here):— ITALY. Pesek (San Dorligo della Valle), presso Trieste ( WGS84 45°37’47”N, 13°53’41”E), 420 m, pascoli sassosi, 31 May 2001, F. Conti, L. Gubellini s.n. ( APP No. 47338!, Fig. 1 ; isoepitype APP No. 47339!) .

Protologue citation:—“Habitat in Tergestina Ditione ”

Nomenclatural notes:—Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788) described Scorzonera villosa in the 2 nd edition of Flora Carniolica ( Scopoli 1771) [unlike what was reported by Stafleu & Cowan (1985), both the first and second volume of the 2 nd edition of Flora Carniolica were published in 1771 ( Soldano 1989)] providing a short diagnosis, a morphological description, an illustration (pl. 46 fig. 952), and quoting the type locality “ Habitat in Tergestina Ditione ”, which corresponds to the territory surrounding the city of Trieste (NE-Italy). According to Stafleu & Cowan (1985), the Scopoli’s collections are kept in the following herbaria: LINN (a set received by Carl Linnaeus), C (through Martin Henrichsen Vahl), UPS (in the herbarium of Carl Peter Thunberg), B (some material in the general herbarium, mainly destroyed), MPU (through Philippe Picot de Lapeyrouse), and PAV (in the herbarium of Giuseppe Moretti, whose material was destroyed during World War II). We were not able to trace any specimen belonging to original material (Art. 9.4 of the ICN) in these herbaria. The illustration published by Scopoli as part of the protologue is selected here as the lectotype. In this plate, the morphological diagnostic features of involucre, cypselae, and pappus are ambiguous, and it seems appropriate to select an epitype in support of the designated lectotype (Art. 9.9 of the ICN) in order to allow a clear application of the name. We designated a specimen collected in the type locality and kept in APP as epitype.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Epitype of Scorzonera villosa Scop. (APP, reproduced with permission of the Herbarium, Centro Ricerche Floristiche dell’Appennino, Italy).