Aethionema speciosum Boiss. & A. Huet

AL-Shehbaz, Ihsan A. & Barriera, Gabrielle, 2019, Typification of Edmond Boissier’s Cruciferae (Brassicaceae) names enumerated in Flora Orientalis, Boissiera 72, pp. 1-193 : 146

Aethionema speciosum Boiss. & A. Huet in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient. ser. 2, 5: 44. 1856.

Type: “Hab. in Armeniâ inter Gumuchhané et Zazalarhané et propè Erzeroum cl. Huet du Pavillon. Fl. Maio. Fr. Jun.”.

Lectotypus (designated here): TURKEY: “Inter Gumuchané et Zazalarhanée”, V.1853, Huet du Pavillon s.n. ( G-BOIS [ G00154003 ]; isolecto-: G [ G00002109 , G00002110 ], JE [ JE00010977 , JE00010979 ], K [ K000484191 , K000484193 ], P [ P00432267 , P01817622 ]) . Syntypus: TURKEY: “Circa Erzeroum”, 6000'– 6200' [1830 –1890 m], VI.1853, Huet du Pavillon s.n. ( FI [ FI 005692], G [ G00002111 , G00002112 ], G-BOIS [ G00154004 ], K [ K000484195 , K000484196 ], P [ P00432265 , P00432277 ]) .

Notes. – By missing “et” before “circa Erzeroum” in citing the exact protologue, HEDGE (1965: 322) was likely left with the impression that a single collection of May 1853 was involved. The Geneva herbaria have three duplicates of each syntype collection, and none of these six duplicates was annotated by Hedge.

The labels of the isolectotypes have: “Prope Zazalarhané. Inter Baibut et Erzeroum, 5–6000', Mai 1853, A. Huet du Pavillon” indicated.

The original handwritten labels by Huet in the G-BOIS herbarium are somewhat different from the partially printed type labels for material distributed as exsiccatae, as well as those in Huet herbarium G00002109 and G00002111.