Malcolmia meyeri Boiss.

AL-Shehbaz, Ihsan A. & Barriera, Gabrielle, 2019, Typification of Edmond Boissier’s Cruciferae (Brassicaceae) names enumerated in Flora Orientalis, Boissiera 72, pp. 1-193 : 68-69

Malcolmia meyeri Boiss. in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. ser. 2, 17: 71. 1842.

− Hesperis crenulata sensu C.A. Mey., Verz. Pfl. Casp. Meer. : 187. 1831 [non DC.].

 Zuvanda meyeri (Boiss.) Askerova in Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 70: 523. 1985.

Type: “[Meyer] 1641. In montibus Talüsch prope pagum Swant, in glareosis (alt. 670 hexap.)”.

Holotypus: AZERBAIJAN: “Talüsch”, 20.VI.1830, Meyer 1641 ( G-BOIS [ G00332209 ]; iso-: KW [ KW000127980 ], LE, P [ P05415917 ]) .

Notes. – DVOŘÁK (1972a), who proposed the name Zuvanda as subgenus of Maresia Pomel , did not list the type of Malcolmia meyeri . However, ASKEROVA (1985), raised that subgenus to a genus and gave the type collection as above. Her listing is basically compatible with the protologue of MEYER (1831), the listing of BOISSIER (1867a), and specimens in both LE and G-BOIS, though the holotype above is without a collection date.

Furthermore, DOROFEYEV (2012: 376) typified the species based on a specimen at LE, and that typification is rejected here. The name does not need typification because Boissier based the species description solely on the unicate in his herbarium and did not examine or annotate any specimen elsewhere. Therefore, the G-BOIS specimen is the holotype, and the LE duplicate, which was not examined, is the isotype.

DOROFEYEV (1994) transferred the species to Strigosella of the tribe Euclidieae , but the total lack of branched trichomes and the presence of auriculate leaves do not support such generic assignment. Then he ( DOROFEYEV, 2002) placed the species in the genus Moricandia DC. of the Brassiceae , a tribe distinguished primarily by having segmented fruits and conduplicate cotyledons. None of these characters is present in Zuvanda and, therefore, such tribal assignment is unsupported by morphology and molecular data (see AL-SHEHBAZ, 2012).