Knautia dinarica subsp. silana (Grande) Ehrendorfer (1975: 40)

Peruzzi, Lorenzo, Bartolucci, Fabrizio, Astuti, Giovanni, Bernardo, Liliana & Conti, Fabio, 2013, Knautia dinarica (Caprifoliaceae): taxonomy, typification and update of the Italian distribution, Phytotaxa 116 (1), pp. 34-40 : 35

Knautia dinarica subsp. silana (Grande) Ehrendorfer (1975: 40)

Bas.:— Knautia arvensis f. silana Grande (1913: 107) . Type (neotype, here designated):— ITALY. Calabria: Loc. Calabria, in ditione Longobucco, loco Fossiata dicto, in herbosis humidis, alt. 1300 m, solo granitico, 7 August 1921, A. Fiori s.n. (FI! the specimen bearing also handwritings; isoneotypes in FI! and PI!) .

Grande (1913: 107) refers to “ Scabiosa arvensis B. foliis lanceolatis subintegerrimis ” ( Tenore 1831: 59) and to a number of localities with collections (e.g. syntypes) made by him together with F. Cavara (“ Nelle pinete, nei prati o lungo i rivoli a Botte Donato, alla caserma della Fossiata “) and together with G. Lopez (“ ai Serriselli, al Pirillo, al Vallo d'Agnara, a Tacina ”). We were not able to trace in NAP (neither in Tenore nor in Cavara-Grande collections) any of these specimens. Since no other original material were traced, we are forced to propose a neotype for this name. For this purpose, we selected a well representative, topotypical collection conserved in FI. According to the Art. 41.6 of the ICN ( McNeill et al. 2012) the combination proposed by Ehrendorfer (1975) was validly published, despite the incorrect referring to basyonim's rank (“ var. ”) and year of publication (“ 1911 ”).