Malcolmia conringioides Boiss., Fl.

AL-Shehbaz, Ihsan A. & Barriera, Gabrielle, 2019, Typification of Edmond Boissier’s Cruciferae (Brassicaceae) names enumerated in Flora Orientalis, Boissiera 72, pp. 1-193 : 69

Malcolmia conringioides Boiss., Fl. Orient. 1: 230. 1867.

 Conringia nana Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient. ser. 2, 5: 25. 1856.

Type: “Hab. inter Astragalos montis Manschura Antilibani cl. Kotschy alt. 6500'”.

Holotypus: SYRIA: “In humosis vallis Martsch Manschura”, 6000' [1830 m], 8.VI.1855, Kotschy 85 ( G-BOIS [ G00446070 ]; iso-: B [ B100241266 ], BM [ BM001172161 ], E [ E00384093 ], K [ K000693606 ], KW [ KW000127970 ], MPU [ MPU022358 ], P [ P05415834 , P05415838 , P05415843 ], W [ W0075702 ]) .

= Zuvanda exacoides (DC.) Askerova in Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 70: 524. 1985.

Notes. – There is a single sheet in G-BOIS, and it has three labels handwritten by Boissier with minimal information, including just Syria and Kotschy s.n. (two labels) and one with no. 85, just as in the printed label distributed to the various herbaria above.

The mentioning of Manschura in the original protologue and printed label supports treating the sheet as one collection with highly abbreviated information, just as in many of Boissier’s own collections or material from other collectors.

The original publication gives the altitude as 6500' instead of 6000' in the printed label, and that was most likely a typographical error.

Boissier in Flora Orientalis cited under the new name Malcolmia conringioides the type collection of Conringia nana Boiss. (Kotschy 85), among two others as: “Hab. in cultis Damasci et in Antilibano (Gaill!), in dumosis vallis Mandschura Antilibani (Ky exs. 85!), in Libano ad Zachle (Labill!)”, and thereby he avoided creating a later homonym of Malcolmia nana (DC.) Boiss. Therefore , the type of both taxa is the same.