51. Nepeta longiflora Vent., Descr. Pl. Nouv.: tab. 66. 1802.

Lectotypus (designated here): [IRAN]: Hort. Cels, Ventenat s.n. (G [G00341508 excl. left-hand specimen]!; isolecto-: P-JU n° 5385 [P00658191]!).

Notes. – The name Nepeta longiflora has been validated in Descriptions in 1802 based on a plant cultivated in Cels’s garden originating from a Bruguière and Olivier collection from Mt Albours in Persia. The only specimen in Ventenat’s herbarium is a mixed gathering with material from Cels’s garden and Bruguière and Olivier.The plant cultivated in Cels’s garden is designated here as the lectotype with a duplicate in P-JU. A single collection from Mt Albours collected by Bruguière and Olivier has been located in G-BOIS [G00330752] and is here considered as original material. Several collections from the expedition of Bruguière and Olivier in Persia are held at P [P04177880, P04177881, P04177886, P04177888] and one in G-DC [G006554857] but none seems to be from Mt Albours but rather from Teheran. They may also represent elements of original material of Nepeta longiflora .