Ricotia carnosula Boiss. & Heldr.

AL-Shehbaz, Ihsan A. & Barriera, Gabrielle, 2019, Typification of Edmond Boissier’s Cruciferae (Brassicaceae) names enumerated in Flora Orientalis, Boissiera 72, pp. 1-193 : 84

Ricotia carnosula Boiss. & Heldr. in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient. 8: 30. 1849.

Type: “Hab. inter saxa maritima ad occidentem urbis Adalia in Pamphyliâ (Heldr.) Fl. Mart. fruct. Aprili”.

Lectotypus (first step designated by BURTT, 1951: 129; second step designated here): TURKEY: “Inter lapides ad oras maris Adalia ”, IV.1845, Heldreich s.n. ( G-BOIS [ G00332297 ]; isolecto-: B [ B100241718 three fruiting plants], BM [ BM001254077 ], E [ E00373142 ], G [ G00446139 , G00446140 ], GOET [ GOET0024648 ], K [ K000484459 , K000484461 ], KW [ KW000127926 ], P [ P00747551 , P00747552 , P00747554 , P00747555 ], W [ W00075701 A, W18890010563 bottom fruiting plant], WIS [ WIS0255297 ]) . Syntypus: TURKEY: “ Adalia ”, 14.III.1845, Heldreich 475 ( B [ B100241718 seven plants in flower], G-BOIS [ G00332299 ], W [ W00075701 B, W18890010563 five top plants in flower]) .

Notes. – The protologue cited flowering material collected in March and fruiting in April, and by citing a specimen in Kew collected in April as an isotype, BURTT (1951) basically made a first step lectotypification. However, he did not indicate where the type (or lectotype) is housed, and that step is completed herein.

To our knowledge, there are only three numbered sheets (Heldreich 475) that indicate a flowering date of 14 March 1845 and fruiting date of 5 April 1845. The sheet in G-BOIS is cited above as a syntype. The other sheet is at B, and it has seven plants in flowers and three in fruit, and the mixed collections B100241718 and W18890010563 each is listed as an isotype and syntype.

Label of G-BOIS [G00332299] gives a slightly different locality “Dans les cailloux (non in arenosis!!) au bord de la mer à 1 lieue à l’ouest d’Adalia. le 14 mars en fleurs. Le 5 avril les siliques. 1845” and the duplicate includes only two plants in flower.