Veronica hederifolia L. var. gracilis F.Gérard

Revue de Botanique 8: 183 (Gérard 1890), nom. illeg. (Art. 53.1; non V. hederifolia var. gracilis Peterm.).

TYPE CITATION. — France “Assez commun dans les lieux cultivés, à Chatel, sur le muschelkalk, à Rambervillers, à la limite du muschelkalk et des grès bigarrés”.

LECTOTYPE (designated here). — “ Vosges: Chatel, champs cultivés, F. Gerard 27. Apr. 1888 ”, P[P04964112 *].

ISOLECTOTYPES (designated here). — MPU[MPU005259!*], P[P02415853 *, P03805450 *, P03944470 *] .

Nomenclatural note. Veronica hederifolia var. gracilis is described as slenderer than V. hederifolia, with less hairy leaves, paler flowers, cilia lobes of the calyx half less long than those of the latter and being about 1 millimeter in length. All these characters and the type specimens suggest that Gérard (1890) refers to V. sublobata, a species only separated much later (Fischer 1967).