Allium cyrilli Tenore (1827: 364)

Peruzzi, Lorenzo, Adorni, Michele, Dura, Teodoro, Ghillani, Luigi, Pasquali, Giancarlo, Rignanese, Luigi, Ronconi, Daniele & Teruzzi, Maurizio, 2012, Allium cyrilli (Amaryllidaceae): typification, taxonomy and update of the Italian distribution, Phytotaxa 71 (1), pp. 53-58 : 54

Allium cyrilli Tenore (1827: 364) .

Type: — ITALY. Apulia: Foggia, s.d., Tenore s.n. (lectotype NAP!, here designated) .

Tenore’s protologue consists of a diagnosis, referring also to " Allium fragrans ", an unpublished name and illustration by Domenico Cirillo (1739–1799). Unfortunately, Cirillo's collections were destroyed when he was murdered (Stafleu & Cowan 1976). Moreover, we have been unable to find the illustration cited by Tenore, but in his Herbarium in NAP we found a specimen collected in Foggia, Apulia, originally labelled as " Allium fragrans Cyrill. " and then as " Allium Cyrilli Nob. " ( Fig. 1). In the protologue, the author quotes " né campi di Puglia, al Tavoliere " as locus classicus for this species. Foggia is a city within the "Tavoliere" area (a plain located in northern Apulia). Accordingly , this specimen can be considered as original material for the name and it is here selected as the lectotype .