Veronica cinerea Boiss. & Balansa in Boiss.

Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalum Novarum, ser. 2, 6: 131 (Boissier 1859), nom. cons. (Martínez-Ortega & Albach 2003; Brummitt 2005; Barrie 2006).

TYPE CITATION. — Turkey, Kayseri: “Hab. in regione subalpina montis Karamas [= Kuramaz] dagh Cappadociae prope Caesaream [= Kayseri]. Floret fine Junii c. Balansa.

LECTOTYPE (designated here). — “B. Balansa, Pl. d’Orient, 1856 1025. Veronica cinerea, sp. nov. (Boiss.) Région sous-alpine du Karamas-Dagh, à 5 lieues à l’Est de Césarée (Cappadoce). 3. Juillet”, G[G00343627!].

ISOLECTOTYPES (designated here). — BP[BP348459!], GOET[GOET011124!], P[P03882919*], W[W1889-96677!].

Nomenclatural note. Veronica cinerea is an accepted species from Inner Anatolia (Fischer 1978).