Verbascum tripolitanum Boiss., in Diagn. Pl. Orient. 12: 9. 1853.

Khamar, Hamid, Oualidi, Jalal El, Touhami, Amina Ouazzani & Civeyrel, Laure, 2023, Nomenclature and typification in Verbascum (Scrophulariaceae) from North Africa, PhytoKeys 225, pp. 115-152 : 115

Verbascum tripolitanum Boiss., in Diagn. Pl. Orient. 12: 9. 1853.

Type.

[ Syria]. Syria mar.: Tripoli, [Jul] 1846, Ed. Boissier s.n. (Lectotype, designated here: P [P03287124]!). [image of lectotype available at (Image available at: http://coldb.mnhn.../mnhn/p/p03287124].

Notes.

This species was described by Boissier (1853) from material collected at the foot of Trobol mountain in Syria. In the protologue, Boissier (1853) gave information about the collection locality, but he does not provide the name of the herbarium where the original material has been deposited. Boissier (1853) notes that V. tripolitanum starts flowering at the beginning of June. According to Stafleu and Cowan (1976-1988) and Jacquemoud (2011), the Boissier herbarium related to the Flora Orientalis account is preserved at Herb. G. However, duplicates of Boissier’s collections could be found in many other herbaria. During our research, we have traced one specimen (barcode P03287124) conserved in Herb. P that is in accordance with the protologue. The sheet P03287124 bears a part of an inflorescence, a basal leaf, and two handwritten labels, the left one reads " Verbascum tripolitanum Boiss /Syria Mar: / [Jul] 1846 / Tripoli / ( donné par Mr. Boissier / Ed Boiss.)" and the second label on the right corner reads "Herbier Mus. Paris/ herbier tripolinatum / boiss / Syria /". So this sheet is designated here as the lectotype.