Ricotia cretica Boiss. & Heldr. in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient. 8: 29. 1849.

Type: “Hab. inter saxa montium Sphacioticorum in fauce Askyphous dictâ alt. 3000'. (Heldreich) Fl. Aprili”.

Lectotypus (designated here): GREECE: “inter saxa. Sphakia: gorge d’Askyphous”, c. 3000'[910 m], 2.IV.1846, Heldreich 1368 (G-BOIS [G00332300]; isolecto-: BM [BM000750103], K [K000484453], W [W18890010564], WU [WU 075948]) . Syntypus: GREECE: “ Creta inter sysa mtium Sphaciot.”, 3000' [910 m], V.1846, Heldreich s.n. (B [B100241717], GOET [GOET002649], K [K000484454], P [P00747550]) .

Notes. – There is a single sheet in all of the G combined herbaria that matches perfectly well the original protologue, and it is designated above as the lectotype.

BURTT (1951: 130) cited the Kew sheet, “In montibus sphacioticis in regione pinetorum, 1050–1200 m [3500–4000 feet on the label], April 1846, Heldreich (isotypus, K!)” but that is not a lectotypification of the species.

TAN (2002) cited the G-BOIS sheet above as type and the K sheet as an isotype, but that does not qualify for lectotypification of the name because it is post 2001, and she did not use the phrase “designated here” or its equivalent (see TURLAND et al., 2018: Art. 9, note 6; MCNEILL, 2014).

Some duplicates were distributed with labels carrying Boissier’s handwriting indicating a collection date of May instead of April 1846, and are treated here as syntypes. These and the isolectotypes do not have Heldreich’s field collection number. Indeed, only the lectotype and WU duplicates have the collection number, though the latter has the locality as “in montibus Sphacioticis. Cretae prope Askyphous. inter saxa”.