Cicer anatolicum Alefeld (1861: 349)

Krivenko, Denis & Tatanov, Ivan, 2021, Lectotypification of three names in Cicer (Fabaceae), Phytotaxa 512 (2), pp. 117-124 : 120-121

Cicer anatolicum Alefeld (1861: 349)

Type:–– Lidia (= Turkey), [İzmir Province, Ödemiş District], Tmoli (= Boz Dağ ) [Mount] dumosis supra Philadelphiam , Jun. 1842 [P.E.

Boissier ] (lectotype first-step designated by Davis in Davis, Fl. Turkey 3: 270 (1970) (as “type”), second-step designated here, G- BOIS [G00777425 digital images!]; isolectotypes: C [C 10012018 digital image!], BM [ BM000946745 (plant on the right) digital image!], G [G00446784 digital images!], LE [ LE 01072649!, LE 01072654!, LE 01072656!, LE 01072657!], P [P00708281 (plant on the left) digital image!, P00708282 digital image!)] ( Figure 1 ) .

Notes: —The lectotype in G-BOIS is a collection folder of five sheets. On all five sheets, the plants are fixed with pins passed directly through the label, or with strips of paper provided with annotations by Boissier of varying completeness, which allows them to be attributed to the same collection. However, all five sheets, as is customary in G-BOIS, are one specimen (see Jacquemoud 2011). The first sheet of the lectotype is provided with a barcode, the other sheets are marked by the letters a–d.

The isolectotype in G is on three sheets. The sheet with a barcode, as on all distributed by Boissier duplicates, has a yellow abbreviated label “Herb. Boiss. Cicer songaricum Steph. in dumosis Tmoli, June 1842 ”. This isolectotype was originally kept in the collection of the Swiss botanist George François Reuter (1805–1872), which was curator of the Boissier herbarium and collaborator of Boissier accompanying him in travels and collecting trips, later in the collection of the Swiss philanthropist and botanist, Boissier’s son-in-law William Barbey (1842–1914), and since 1966 in G. There are corresponding records about this on herbarium sheets (for more details, see Jacquemoud 2011).

Cicer glutinosum Alefeld (1861: 349) ≡ C. anatolicum var. glutinosum (Alef.) Boisser (1872: 563) = C. anatolicum Alef. Type: ―[ Iran, Kermanshah Province], Kermachan (= Kermanshah) à (= to) [Hamadan Province], Amadan (= Hamadan or Hamedan),

[6–10 Jun. 1796, G.A.] Olivier (lectotype designated here, P [P02924562 digital image!]; isolectotype: P [P02924563 digital

image!]) ( Figure 2 ).

Notes: —In the protologue and on the original label of the lectotype there is no collection date. We analyzed Olivier’s travel report ( Olivier 1807), which is a detailed expedition diary. Olivier and his fellow travelers covered the path from Kermanshah to Hamadan in almost five days from June 6 to 10, 1796, including a night crossing over the Alvand peak. On June 6, the travelers left Kermanshah and reached Bisotun in the evening. The next day, June 7, the caravan crossed the Sahneh, on June 8 they camp behind Kangavar. On June 9, after an 8-hour march, travelers set up camp in a valley at the foot of the Central Zagros and on the same day they take a night break through Alvand and the next morning with a short stop they arrive at Amadan. In this text, we did not find any explicit mention of the collection of plants, except for information that on June 9, during a stop in the foothills of the Zagros, the plain on which they stopped abounded with a large variety of plants. Here Olivier first meets a rose, described by P.S. Pallas as Rosa berberifolia Pallas (1797: 379) .

The specimen P02924563 does not have an original label, but there is a label handwritten by É. Spach “Perse Olivier et Bruguière”. It is common knowledge that Olivier and Bruguière travelled together in the Middle East ( Olivier 1807, Bernard 1997). We believe that the lectotype and this specimen belong to the same gathering, since they have the same habit and features.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Lectotype of Cicer anatolicum Alef. in G-BOIS [G00777425].

FIGURE 2. Lectotype of Cicer glutinosum Alef. in P [P02924562].