Edraianthus serbicus Petrović (1882: 549)

Lakušić, Dmitar, Stefanović, Saša, Siljak-Yakovlev, Sonia, Rakić, Tamara, Kuzmanović, Nevena & Surina, Boštjan, 2016, Edraianthus stankovicii (Campanulaceae), an overlooked taxon from the Balkan Peninsula-Evidence from morphometric, molecular and genome size studies, Phytotaxa 269 (2), pp. 69-89 : 78-80

Edraianthus serbicus Petrović (1882: 549) ≡ Wahlenbergia serbica (Petrović) Beck (1893: 298) .

Type:— SERBIA. Eastern: Suha plan. [Mt. Suva planina], [1]878, [Pančić, J.] s.n. (BEOU Herb. Panc. 9538!, lectotype designated here) ( Fig. 6 ).

− Hedraeanthus tenuifolius A. DC. sensu Pančić (1856: 564) .

− Campanula serbica Kerner (1872 : LXXI) (nom. nud.)

− Campanula caudata Vis. pro parte sensu Pančić (1874: 478) - Rtanj, Stol, Pleš.

− Campanula serbica Kern. in Pančić (1884: 178) (nom. nud.)

− Campanula kerneriana Pančić in sched. (unpublished name).

Note:—The peculiarity of this taxon was noticed already by Anton Joseph Kerner (1831–1898), who published the name Campanula serbica ( Kerner 1872: 71) most probably on the basis of the material collected by Josif Pančić (1814–1888) on Mt. Rtanj in 1870 (WU-Kerner 0069977, image available at http://herbarium.univie.ac.at/database/ detail.php?ID=376608). However, he did not provide a description or diagnosis, leaving this name invalidly published (nomen nudum).

Two years later, Pančić (1874: 478) published the records of this species in “Flora Principatus Serbiae” under the name “ Campanula caudata Vis. ”. In fact, even much earlier, the records from Mt. Rtanj were published by Pančić under the name “ Hedraeanthus tenuifolius A. DC ” ( Pančić 1856: 564), supported by the herbarium material he collected in 1847 (BEOU 9653!). In the following years, after publishing “Flora Principatus Serbiae”, Pančić collected several specimens of this species from the mountains in north-eastern Serbia, identified as “ Campanula serbica ” (BEOU 9537!, BEOU 9539!, BEOU 9541!, BEOU 9633!). He added notes in “Additamenta ad Floram Principatus Serbiae” ( Pančić 1884: 177) that, instead of the name Campanula caudata he used in Fl. Serbiae ( Pančić 1874: 478), the name “ Campanula serbica Kern. ” was used more often in recent times for these plants. Nevertheless, he was aware that the name of Kerner was published without a description ( Pančić 1884: 178). Pančić’ s intention to validly describe it as a new species was not accomplished at the time, since he did not have any material of Campanula caudata (= Edraianthus dalmaticus ) for a comparative study ( Pančić 1884: 178). According to details on the labels of some specimens collected by Pančić and deposited in BEOU (BEOU 9447!, BEOU 9448!, BEOU 9540!), he intended to name it “ Campanula kerneriana ”, in honour of Anton J. Kerner.

Between the two editions of Flora of Serbia ( Pančić 1874, 1884), Sava Petrović (1839–1889) published Flora of surroundings of Niš (“Flora Agry Nyssani”, Petrović 1882), and this was the first place in which conditions for valid publication of the name Edraianthus serbicus were fulfilled. In the preface of his book, he listed the names of the species described as new to science ( Petrović 1882: VI), where no Campanula or Edraianthus spp . appeared. Further in the book, he presented some interesting rare species and their localities, listing the species “ Edraianthus serbicus Kern. ” as occurring in Mt. Suva planina ( Petrović 1882: XXV). His ascription of the name Edraianthus serbicus to Kerner was apparently a reference to Kerner (1872), in which the species was first mentioned under Campanula , as evident from Petrović’ s writing “ Campanula serbica Kern. herb.” ( Petrović 1882: 549).

Therefore, the first effectively published description of Edraianthus serbicus was given by Petrović (1882: 549), who provided a diagnosis in the Serbian language. As he stated in the introductory remarks of the book, he studied the material collected by himself in 1879, as well as all the material collected by Pančić and Pelivanović in the years 1878, 1879, 1880 and 1881 ( Petrović 1882: VIII). Following this statement, we designated the specimen collected by Pančić on Mt. Suva planina in 1878 as the lectotype.

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FIGURE 6. Lectotype of the name Edraianthus serbicus Petrović (BEOU Herb. Panc. 9538!).