Rubus gizellae Borbás (1887: 327)

Király, Gergely, Barina, Zoltán & Trávníček, Bohumil, 2014, Rubus gizellae (Rosaceae), a bramble species from southeastern Europe- identification history, neotypification, and taxonomic notes, Phytotaxa 167 (1), pp. 141-142 : 142

Rubus gizellae Borbás (1887: 327)

Type:— HUNGARY. Vas County: Dávidháza , 4 Jul 1920, Gáyer, (neotype, designated here, BP 84731!)

Notes:— Rubus gizellae Borbás has been treated, until recently, as a presumed single morphotype without taxonomic value. Gáyer studied the type material before it was destroyed, presented a voucher collected by him, and a detailed emendation for the taxon. This specimen is designated here as the neotype for R. gizellae . Based on the description and emendation of the species, together with study of the neotype specimen and field examinations, we conclude that R. gizellae is a regional bramble species distributed in Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia. Borbás (1887) and Gáyer (1921, 1925) assigned its position in subgen. Rubus , ser. Vestiti (Chaboiss.) Focke (1877: 285), which is characterized by densely hairy first year stem, silky hairy leaves beneath and the presence of stalked glands in the inflorescence. Rubus gizellae was erroneously considered by Heslop-Harrison (1968: 19) to be a “related species to R. radula Weihe ” as stalked glands on first year stem of R. gizellae are lacking, while the presence of stalked glands on the primocane is an important feature of ser. Radula (Hook. & Arn.) Focke (1877: 317). Our recent studies support the conclusion that R. gizellae is a typical representative of ser. Vestiti.