Veronica surculosa Boiss. & Balansa

Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalum Novarum, ser. 2, 3: 170 (Boissier 1856).

TYPE CITATION. — Turkey, Nigde: “Hab. in regione alpina Tauro Orientalis supra Bulgarmaden [Bolkar Dagh] cl. Balansa”.

LECTOTYPE (designated here). — “B. Balansa, Pl. d’Orient, 1855. Veronica surculosa, sp. nov. (Boiss.) Région alpine du Taurus, au-dessus de Boulgarmaden . 16 Septembre”, G[G00343591!].

ISOLECTOTYPES (designated here). — G[G00768526*], P[P03520326*, P03520327*].

Nomenclatural note. Veronica surculosa is an accepted, alpine species restricted to the Taurus Mountains (Fischer 1978). It is similar to V. dichrus and V. cuneifolia, which are not closely related according to DNA sequence analysis (Doostmohammadi et al. 2022). Therefore, typification and further analysis of this species is important.