Veronica benthamii (“ benthami ”) Hook.f.

Flora Antarctica 1: 60, t.39, 40 (Hooker 1845 -1847). — Hebe benthamii (Hook. f.) Cockayne & Allan., Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 57: 43 (Cockayne & Allan 1926).

TYPE CITATION. — New Zealand, Auckland Island: “Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Island; on rocky places on the hills”, J. D. Hooker, Nov. 1840.

LECTOTYPE. — Designated by L. B. Moore in Allan (1961); second-step lectotype designated here, “Lord Auckland’s group J. D. Hooker”, XI.1840, based on Flora Antarctica 1: vii, K[K00107643!].

ISOLECTOTYPES (designated here). — K[K00107642!], MPU[MPU013821!*], P[P03520233 *].

Nomenclatural note. On the first trip of Joseph Dalton Hooker to Antarctica, Hooker also collected type specimens of three new Veronica species, V. macroura from New Zealand and V. odora and V. benthamii from the Antarctic Islands Auckland Island and Campbell Island. The lectotypes of Hooker are found in Hooker’s herbarium in Kew but isotypes have been sent to other important herbaria, such as V. benthamii from Campbell Island to P. The specimen from the Auckland Islands is chosen as lectotype since it contains detailed sketches of the plant’s details.