Veronica hispidula Boiss. & A.Huet in Boiss.

Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalum Novarum, ser. 2, 3: 173 (Boissier 1856).

TYPE CITATION. — Turkey, Erzurum: “Hab. in arenosis prope Erzeroum cl. Huet du Pavillon. Fl. Maio”.

LECTOTYPE (designated here). — “Erzeroum in arenosis Jun 1853 A. Huet du Pavillon”, G[G00751975*].

ISOLECTOTYPES (designated here). — B[B100278580!], BP[BP348660!], FI[FI009741*], G[G00343629!, G00343630!], GH[GH00091941!*], GOET[GOET011128!], JE[JE00000158!*], KW!, P[P03529501*, P03529502*, P04437985*], S[S10-22096*, S10-22097*], W[W1889-0017686!], WAG[WAG0003314 *], Z[Z10344!*].

Nomenclatural note. Three specimens of the type collection of V. hispidula are in Paris, one apparently directly sent to the general herbarium, the other through the herbier Cosson and the herbier Lenormand (Caen). The lectotype should be the one that Boissier studied most intensively. There are three specimens in G, one labelled as belonging to the personal herbarium of Huet du Pavillon (G00343629), one belonging to the herbarium Candolle (G00343630) and the third one from the herbier Boissier (G00751975). It is the latter one that is also the sheet with the small plants spread across the sheet as if best to study them and, therefore, chosen as lectotype.