Alyssum lepidotum Boiss., Diagn. Pl.

AL-Shehbaz, Ihsan A. & Barriera, Gabrielle, 2019, Typification of Edmond Boissier’s Cruciferae (Brassicaceae) names enumerated in Flora Orientalis, Boissiera 72, pp. 1-193 : 95

Alyssum lepidotum Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient. 1: 73. 1843.

Type: “Hab. in regione alpinâ summâ Cariae, montes propè Moglah Aucher No 299, Cadmus suprà Gheyra ego Junio 1842 [Boissier]”.

Lectotypus (first step designated by DUDLEY, 1965b: 390; second step designated here): TURKEY: “ Pic de Geyra ”, VI.1842, Boissier s.n. ( G-BOIS [ G00332378 ]; isolecto-: A [ A00018554 ], B [ B100244986 ], JE [ JE00002999 ], W) . Syntypus: TURKEY: “Mouglah”, s.d., Aucher-Eloy 252 ( G-BOIS [ G00332377 ], K [ K000484921 , K000484922 ], P [ P00868514 , P05330196 ]) .

Notes. – DUDLEY (1965b) selected one of the two syntypes cited in the original publication but did not indicate which of the four herbaria he cited house the lectotype, and therefore a second step is done here. Dudley listed K among the isolectotypes, but the two duplicates by Boissier K000484923 and K000484924 were collected from “Mesogis cacumen suprà Tralles ” and are not recognized here as part of the type collection .

The lectotype is a collection folder of three sheets, of which one is unlabeled, and the barcoded sheet has the species name, locality, and month and collection year. The third sheet has four rows of plants with the locality “Pic de Geyra” on the second row and collection year on the other three rows.

BOISSIER (1843) erroneously cited the syntype as Aucher-Eloy 299, but he later corrected it to 252 ( BOISSIER, 1867a).