Carlina graeca var. actinobola Heldr. ex Halácsy, Consp. Fl. Graec.

Reich, Dieter, Gutermann, Walter, Bardy, Katharina, Rainer, Heimo, Raus, Thomas, Sonnleitner, Michaela, Tan, Kit & Lachmayer, Margarita, 2021, The type specimens in Eugen von Halácsy´s Herbarium Graecum, Phytotaxa 493 (1), pp. 1-156 : 25

Carlina graeca var. actinobola Heldr. ex Halácsy, Consp. Fl. Graec. 2 (1): 98. 1902.

Current name: Carlina corymbosa subsp. graeca

Lectotype:—[ Greece] Flora Aegaea: in Cycladum insulis Delos et Mykonos: July 1901, T.H.H. von Heldreich 1648 (WU 0072521), authentic specimen for Carlina actinobola Heldr. (quod vide in Catalogue C).

Isolectotype :—[ Greece] Flora Aegaea : in Cycladum insulis Delos et Mykonos: July 1901, T. H. H . von Heldreich 1648 ( WU 0076365 ), authentic specimen for Carlina actinobola Heldr. (quod vide in Catalogue C) .

Lectotype designated by Meusel & Kästner (1994: 214).

Halácsy´s herbarium contains two corresponding vouchers collected by Heldreich, one with a handwritten diagnosis and the name of Carlina actinobola Heldr. nov. sp. by Heldreich and one with a printed label of Heldreich´s Herbarium Graecum Normale series containing a diagnosis. According to Meusel & Kästner (1994) Halácsy published his Carlina graeca var. actinobola in April 1902 citing Heldreich´s material but in the herbarium WU the corresponding material was only acquired in June 1902. We can assume, that Halácsy first obtained the voucher with the handwritten diagnosis and validly published this at variety level (thus Carlina graeca var. actinobola Heldr. ex Halácsy ), and the – most likely posterior – publication in Heldreich´s series thus only qualifies as a new combination ( Carlina actinoloba (Heldr. ex Halácsy) Heldr.). The orthographic variant of var. actinoloba dates back to Hayek (1931) but is an invalid correction as Heldreich´s original epithet actinobola is meaningful and thus not necessarily a mistake ( Meusel & Kästner 1994).