Camelina microcarpa Andrz. ex DC., Syst. Nat.

Mosyakin, Sergei L. & Brock, Jordan R., 2021, On the proper type designation for Camelina microcarpa, a wild relative and possible progenitor of the crop species C. sativa (Brassicaceae), Candollea 76 (1), pp. 55-63 : 60

Camelina microcarpa Andrz. ex DC., Syst. Nat. 2: 517. 1821

( Fig. 1 , 2 ).

Holotypus: MOLDOVA or UKRAINE: “in Podoliae australi”, s.d., Andrzejowski s.n. ( G [ G00203789 ]! ; iso-: KW-BESS [ KW001003103 , KW001003104 ]! ; probable iso-: KW-BESS [ KW001003105 ]!).

Notes. – In the book describing his travels and research in Podolia and adjacent areas in 1814, 1816, 1818, and 1822, ANDRZEJOWSKI (1823: 49) discussed “Flora od Jampola do Jaorlika a nawet do morza [...] [the flora from Yampil’ to Yagorlyk and down to the sea]” and, following the introductory phrase “Szczególniey od Kamionki przybywają tu: … [Especially from Kamenka, [the following species start to] appear here: …]”), provided a list of species, including “ CAMELINA * microcarpa mihi”.

The town of “Jampol” [Yampil’, also transliterated as Yampol’ or Iampol] is located at the border with Moldova in Vinnytsia Region of Ukraine. “Jaorlik” may refer either to the village of Yagorlyk [Iagorlîc] in Dubossary [Dubăsari] District of Moldova, or to the Yagorlyk River in Odessa Region of Ukraine and the adjacent part of Moldova. It is more problematic to match the toponym “Kamionka” with a particular place because there are several Kamyanka [Kamianka] settlements in the Odessa and Kherson administrative regions of Ukraine. However, judging from his itinerary, there is little doubt that ANDRZEJOWSKI (1823) mentioned specifically the settlement corresponding to the present-day town of Camenca [Kamenka] in Camenca District of Moldova. Thus, we conclude that Andrzejowski originally collected specimens of C. microcarpa somewhere in the eastern part of the presentday Moldova or adjacent parts of Ukraine (probably Odessa Region), along the left (eastern) bank of the Dnister [Nistru in Moldovan/Romanian, also Dniester] River between Camenca town and the confluence of the Dnister and Yagorlyk [Iagorlîc] rivers, most probably on limestone outcrops because plants typical for the whole “limestone area” in Andrzejowski’s lists in that chapter were marked by asterisks. This suggests that the type of C. microcarpa probably belongs to the southern Ukrainian populations, which are genetically different from northern and central Ukrainian ones ( BROCK et al., 2020).

Figures

Fig. 1. – Isotype of Camelina microcarpa Andrz. ex DC.

Fig. 2. – Isotype of Camelina microcarpa Andrz. ex DC.