Cardamine lazica Boiss. & Balansa in Boiss., Fl. Orient. Suppl.: 31. 1888.

Type: “Hab. in Ponto littorali ad rivulos prope Rhizé et in regione subalpinâ inter Andon et Djimil 3300' (Bal.!)”.

Lectotypus (designated here): TURKEY: “Fruits: Bords des ruisseaux du Lazistan prés de Rhizé”, c. 100 m, V.1866, Balansa 31 (G-BOIS [G00332101 first sheet on the right and second sheet]; isolecto-: G (G [G00446020, G00446021], GOET [GOET002730], P [P00747531]) . Syntypus: TURKEY: “ Fleurs: Khan situé entre Andon et Djimil (Lazistan)”, 1836 m, 6.VII.1866, Balansa 31 (G-BOIS [G00332101 two flowering plants on first sheet on the left]) (Fig. 9, p. 53) .

= Cardamine wiedemanniana Boiss., Fl. Orient. 1: 162. 1867.

Notes. – The lectotype is a collection folder of two sheets both annotated by O. E. Schulz on 31 December 1901. The second sheet has two fruiting plants and no label, and the first sheet has a fruiting plant on the right, two flowering plants on left, and a label carrying the species name in Boissier’s handwriting and the field number 31 (Fig. 9, p. 53). The flowering material is recognized here as the syntype, and the fruiting material is designated as the lectotype.

CULLEN (1965: 441) listed both syntypes from Rhize and between Andon and Djimil and without discriminating flowering or fruiting material as the type, though he indicated to have seen them in K. A search of all the holdings at K and JSTOR Global Plants website revealed no Balansa material of the species at K. Therefore, we are not considering Cullen’s action a first step lectotypification and preferring to lectotypify the name based on material examined by Boissier. Furthermore, the listing of such K material by DOROFEYEV (2003: 58) cannot be considered an effective lectotypification (see MCNEILL, 2014; TURLAND et al., 2018: Art. 9, note 6).