Dianthus hyssopifolius L., 1755

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part D), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 474-489 : 479

Dianthus monspeliacus Linnaeus , Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 1029. 1759.

RCN: 3214.

Lectotype (Bernal Cid in Cafferty & Jarvis in Taxon 53: 1051. 2004): Séguier, Herb. Linn. No. 581.17 ( LINN) .

Current name: Dianthus hyssopifolius L. ( Caryophyllaceae ).

Note: Rickett (in Lloydia 18: 60. 1955) and Nordenstam (in Bot. Not. 114: 278. 1961) both noted that D. monspessulanus did not feature in Centuria I Plantarum (1755) and was a new addition in the later version of that thesis published in the Amoenitates Academicae (Nov 1759). Both D. monspessulanus and Linnaeus’ earlier ( May–Jun 1759) D. monspeliacus have very similar diagnoses. Sheet 581.17 (LINN) bears material from Séguier annotated "monspeliensis A" by Linnaeus, the “A” associating the material with D. monspeliacus (species “A” in Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 2: 1029), and Séguier is mentioned in the protologue of D. monspessulanus ("Habitat Monspelii. Sauvages; Veronae. Seguier"). Partly because there has been some usage of D. monspessulanus (by e.g. Greuter & al., Med-Checklist 1: 199. 1984; Tutin & Walters in Tutin & al., Fl. Europaea, ed. 2, 1: 238. 1993), it seems preferable to treat these two as independent, though homotypic, names (rather than orthographic variants). Laínz & Muñoz Garmendia (in Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 44: 571-572. 1987) clarified the typification of D. hyssopifolius and they, and Bernal & al. (in Castroviejo & al., Fl. Iberica 2. 426-462. 1990) have treated it and D. monspeliacus as synonymous. The typifications made by Bernal Cid for both D. monspeliacus and D. monspessulanus formalise this position.