Heracleum absinthifolium Vent., Choix Pl.

Callmander, Martin W., Durbin, Olivier D., Lack, Hans-Walter, Bungener, Patrick, Martin, Pascal & Gautier, Laurent, 2017, Etienne-Pierre Ventenat (1757 - 1808) and the gardens of Cels and Empress Joséphine, Candollea 72 (1), pp. 87-132 : 104

28. Heracleum absinthifolium Vent., Choix Pl. : tab. 7. 1803.

Ξ Zosima absinthifolia (Vent.) Link

Lectotypus (designated here): [ TURKEY]: Hort. Cels, Ventenat s.n. ( G [ G00341310 ]!) ( Fig. 5 ).

Notes. – When validating the name Heracleum absinthifolium, Ventenat referred to “Sphondylium orientale humulius, foliis absinthii”, a pre-linnean name coined by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) in the herbaria of Vaillant and Jussieu. A specimen has been located in Herb. Vaillant and is here considered as original material [P00662760]. Further collections of Bruguière and Olivier from Turkey have been located in G-DC [G00477269]. The only collection f rom Cels’s garden in Ventenat’s herbarium is designated here as the lectotype. Recent revisions of the genus Zosima Hoffm. ( Alava, 1987; Menemen & Jury, 2001) cited as type material a collection at G with the locality information taken from Ventenat; however no collection exists with this locality.

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Fig. 5. – Ventenat’s handwriting and typical footer labels at G on the lectotype of Heracleum absynthifolium Vent.