Brassica nivalis 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 : 166

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7630433
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7623310
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scientific name	Brassica nivalis Boiss. & Heldr.
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Brassica nivalis Boiss. & Heldr. View in CoL in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient. ser. 2, 1: 32. 1854.

Type: “Hab. in rupibus ad nives Olympi Thessali rara (Heldr. Julio 1851)”.

Holotypus: GREECE: “In rupibus ad nives Olympi Thessaliae”, 24.VII.1851, Heldreich 2559 ( G-BOIS [ G00332641 ]; iso-: WU [ WU0076059 ]) .

Notes. – The systematic position of Brassica nivalis is controversial, and it has been assigned to at least five genera of the tribe Brassiceae . Although some authors placed the species in Coincya Rouy (Greuter & Burdet in GREUTER & RAUS, 1983; GREUTER et al., 1986; TAN, 2002) or in Guenthera Andrz. ( GÓMEZ-CAMPO, 2003, see comments under Brassica persica ), it is tentatively retained in Brassica , as done by LEADLAY & HEYWOOD (1990), JALAS et al. (1996), and WARWICK & AL-SHEHBAZ (2006).

The species does not fit in Coincya because it drastically differs in floral morphology, geography, and chromosome numbers.