Saltia papposa (Forrsk.) Moq., Prodr.

Hassan, Walaa A., Al-Shaye, Najla A. & Iamonico, Duilio, 2023, A critical inventory of the family Amaranthaceae s. str. in Saudi Arabia, Phytotaxa 626 (4), pp. 223-246 : 239-240

11.1 Saltia papposa (Forrsk.) Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 325. 1849

≡ Achyranthes papposa Forssk., Fl.

Aegypt.-Arab.: 48. 1775.

Lectotype (designate here): — YEMEN. Zabid, s.d., Forsskål 205 (C10001569!, image of the lectotype available at https://plants.jstor. org/stable/viewer/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.c10001569?page=1); isolectotypes: C10001570! (image of the isolectotype available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/viewer/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.c10001570?page=1) and BM000950560! (image of the isolectotype available at https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/c634a45c-983a-42f3-9c4d-1d1b06f5f88b/1691539200000).

Typification of the name Achyranthes papposa :— Forsskål (1775: 48) published Achyranthes papposa by giving a short diagnosis (“ foliis alternis; crassiusculis; lineari-cuneatis, obtusis ”) and a detailed description; the provenance [“ Zebíd ” (currently Zabid), a city of W-Yemen] is reported [see also Forsskål (1775: CVII) who indicated “Mi.” as provenance of A. papposa , “Mi.” meaning “Montium Regionis Inferior” ( Forsskål 1775: CI)]. We traced two specimens at C, where Forsskal’s herbarium and types are mostly preserved (HUH Index of Botanists 2013c), i.e. viz. C10001569 and C10001570, both collected at Zabid; a further specimen is kept at BM (BM000950560) and it was annotated by Frank Nigel Hepper as an isotype. These three specimens are part of the original material for A. papposa (see also Hepper & Friis 1994). C10001569 bears a branch of a plant with more flowers than in C10001570. Since the morphology of the flowers is important to identify Saltia papposa ( Townsend 1993) , we here designate C10001569 as the lectotype of A. papposa . C10001570 and BM000950560 are isolectotypes.

Chorology:― Endemic to the Arabian Peninsula ( Saudi Arabia and Yemen; POWO 2023).

Occurrence in Saudi Arabia :― Doubtfully in Makkah ( Miller & Cope 1996). We did not trace any specimen collected in Saudi Arabia , but it is not impossible that Saltia papposa occurs in the country, probably in the south-eastern coastal area (Jazan?) (see also Ghazanfar & Fisher 2013: 178–179).