Hieracium schultzianum Pančić & Vis. ex Sch.Bip.

Clementi, Moreno, Vukojičić, Snežana, Miola, Antonella & Niketić, Marjan, 2016, Typification and nomenclature of the names published in Plantae Serbicae Rariores aut Novae-Decas III, Phytotaxa 252 (2), pp. 85-98 : 90

Hieracium schultzianum Pančić & Vis. ex Sch.Bip. in Visiani & Pančić (1870: 9, Tab. XVIII, figs. 1–2)

Lectotype (designated here):— SERBIA. In Serbia , s.d., J. Pančić s.n. ( NAP, unnumbered in Pasquale’s herbarium), Fig. 2 .

Note:—The specimen that we selected as type is the only one that we were able to locate, the label is in Visiani’s handwriting and bears his signature. It was collected in Serbia by Pančić and sent by Visiani to Giuseppe Antonio Pasquale (1820–1893), director of the Botanical Garden of Naples. Despite the lack of a date, it must have been collected before 1865, since, as we can understand from the correspondence, Pančić sent all the specimens of this taxon that remained to him to Visiani in that year and none other afterwards. This is supported also by the lack of a precise locality in its label, as Pančić only communicated to Visiani the exact place where he collected H. schultzianum in 1868. Moreover, this specimen might have been used to draw picture number 2 in the iconography accompanying the protologue. Specimens of this species were initially identified and recorded by Pančić as “ Hieracium pallescens” ( Pančić 1856: 561) . He later sent them to Schultz-Bipontinus, who recognised them as members of a new species, which he intended to name “ H. pancicii ” and for which he recognised two varieties. As already mentioned, Schultz-Bipontinus prepared a manuscript with the protologue for the new names, but died before he could publish it. Pančić and Visiani, having received the manuscript by Schultz-Bipontinus, published it in their paper almost unaltered. In the protologue, Visiani and Pančić unambiguously ascribe both the description and the diagnosis of this taxon to Schultz-Bipontinus, with the following words: “ Shultz Bip. [...] diagnosi supra exposita firmaverat et sequenti descriptione et [plantam hanc] observationibus hucusque ineditis illustraverat”, i.e. “Schultz Bip. [...] authored the diagnosis given above and the following description and illustrated [this plant] with observations still unpublished”. In his manuscript, Schultz-Bipontinus had proposed the name “ Hieracium pancicii ”, which was changed by Pančić and Visiani to H. schultzianum in his honour. They cite themselves as authors of this latter name, in reversed order with respect to the publication as a whole. In the protologue, two varieties of H. schultzianum are also recognised: “Var. I” and “Var. II”. The first one is described as “Spithameum” (i.e. “one span tall”), the second as “Pedale” (i.e. “one foot tall”), plus a short description for each. These designations might be confused for names, but they were probably intended as phrase names or simply as parts of the description proper, so that they should not to be regarded as names (Art. 26.3). Since the introduction of Zahn’s concept of collective species, this taxon is commonly accepted as a subspecies, Hieracium sparsum subsp. schultzianum (Pančić & Vis. ex Sch.Bip.) Zahn in Engler (1922: 1020). However, Assyov & Petrova (2012: 228) and Niketić (2014: 218) consider it as a separate microspecies, probably apomictic.

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FIGURE 2. Lectotype of Hieracium schultzianum Pančić & Vis. ex Sch.Bip..