Lepidium affghanum Boiss.

AL-Shehbaz, Ihsan A. & Barriera, Gabrielle, 2019, Typification of Edmond Boissier’s Cruciferae (Brassicaceae) names enumerated in Flora Orientalis, Boissiera 72, pp. 1-193 : 152

Lepidium affghanum Boiss. , Fl. Orient. 1: 358. 1867.

Type: “Hab. ad Keratkuh inter Herat et Tebes ubi specimen unicum legit cl. Bunge”.

Holotypus: IRAN: “inter Herat et Tebes. Kerat-Kuh”, X–XI.1858, Bunge 36 ( P [ P05356212 ]) ( Fig. 31 , p. 123) .

Notes. – No specimens were located in the Geneva herbaria, and the unicate P05356212 was annotated by Boissier. It has to be taken as the holotype because no duplicates were seen elsewhere in any of the major herbaria consulted. If such exist, then it is still highly unlikely that Boissier examined them.

HEDGE (1968: 121), who treated the species as Stroganowia affghana (Boiss.) Pavlov , indicated that the type is at G even though it did not exist in the first place.

Figures

Fig.31. Holotype of Lepidium affghanum Boiss. in P (p.152). [© Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris]