Verbascum undulatum Lam., Encycl.

Zografidis, Aris, 2019, Typification of Verbascum undulatum (Scrophulariaceae), Phytotaxa 391 (3), pp. 243-246 : 244

Verbascum undulatum Lam., Encycl. 4(1): 221. 1797, emend. Zograf.

Lectotype (designated here): [icon] “ Verbascum Graecum , fruticosum, folio sinuato candidissimo ” in Tournefort, Rel. Voy. Levant., ed. Paris, 1: t. facing p. 335. 1717. Lectotype available at: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1057564c/f474. image

Notes: The elements regarding the root and the capsule with seeds in the detailed description in the protologue consist of the sentences: “Elle a la racine dure, longue, assez grosse, un peu amère, garnie de fibres chevelues” and “Le fruit consiste en une capsule roussâtre, longue d’environ quatre lignes sur deux lignes de large, dure, pointue, bivalve, partagée en deux loges remplies de semences menues & noirâtres”. Irrelevant elements to be disregarded constitute the rest of the description i.e. the part: “Sa tige est herbacée, droite, foible, […] à stigmate un peu épais, légèrement bilobé”, as well as the concluding sentences of the protologue: “Cette belle espèce croît naturellement dans le Levant d’où elle a été rapportée par M. de la Billardière. On la cultive au jardin des plantes (V. v.)”.

Epitype (designated here): GREECE. [Nomos Kikladon, Eparchia Keas]: Is Kea , ca 2.5 km E of Pisses, dry, rocky fields, 37°35’46’’N, 24°18’9’’E, 40 m, 17 June 2018, Zografidis 429 ( UPA 16073 ; isoepitypes ATH, B), Fig. 1

= V. plicatum Sm., Fl. Graec. Prodr. 1:150. 1806.

Lectotype (designated here): [Sibthorp s.n.] ( OXF Sib-0524a). Image of the lectotype available at: https://herbaria.plants. ox.ac.uk/bol/SIBTHORP/image/Sib-0524a.JPG/Zoom?fpi=1

Notes: Original material also consists of a watercolor drawing by Ferdinand Bauer kept in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, engraved and reproduced later in Flora Graeca ( Sibthorp & Smith 1819: t. 226), and of an uncited specimen (LINN- HS 358.5) deposited in the Smithian Herbarium at LINN. The specimen at OXF is fruiting and has the basal rosette, hence it is the most informative one and is chosen as lectotype.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Scan of the epitype of Verbascum undulatum Lam.