Veronica ixodes Boiss. & Balansa in Boiss.

Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalum Novarum, ser. 2, 3: 172 (Boissier 1856). — V. hispidula subsp. ixodes (Boiss. & Balansa) M.A.Fisch. Flora of Turkey and the Aegean Islands 6: 709 (Fischer 1978).

TYPE CITATION. — Turkey, Kayseri: “Hab. in regione alpina montis Masmeneu Dagh in via a Cilicia ad Caesaream siti cl. Balansa”.

LECTOTYPE (designated here). — “B. Balansa, Pl. d’Orient, 1855. Veronica ixodes, sp. nov. (Boiss.) Masmeneu-Dagh, à 2 lieues au sud de Césaréi. 8 août!”, G[G00343632!].

ISOLECTOTYPES (designated here). — G[G00343631!], GH[GH00091942!], K[K001070264*], P[P03529507*, P03529516*], Z!

POSSIBLE ISOLECTOTYPE. — US[US00324055*].

Nomenclatural note. Veronica ixodes is considered to differ from V. hispidula by having longer styles and pedicels, the latter longer than the bracts, a white corolla rather than a blue one, and a slightly different capsule shape (Fischer 1978). The distribution ranges of both differ with V. ixodes occurring further south in southern Anatolia and Cyprus, although ranges overlap, and mixed populations occur (Mouterde & Fischer 1984). Therefore, V. ixodes is nowadays considered a subspecies of V. hispidula .