Moricandia dumosa Boiss., Diagn. Pl.

AL-Shehbaz, Ihsan A. & Barriera, Gabrielle, 2019, Typification of Edmond Boissier’s Cruciferae (Brassicaceae) names enumerated in Flora Orientalis, Boissiera 72, pp. 1-193 : 164

Moricandia dumosa Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient. 8: 25. 1849.

Type: “Hab. in omni Arabiâ petraeâ septentrionali copiosè a jugo Tih ad limites Palaestinae. Legi [Boissier] Aprili 1846”.

Holotypus: EGYPT: “Arabia petraea. Chaîne du Tih”, III.1846, Boissier s.n. ( G-BOIS [ G00332629 ]; iso-: G [ G00446288 , G00446289 , G00446312 ], K [ K000653954 , K000653955 ], KW [ KW000127942 ], PH [ PH00018408 ]) .

= Moricandia nitens (Viv.) Durrand & Barratte, Prodr. Fl. Lib. : 15. 1910.

Notes. – The holotype is a collection folder of two sheets, of which one has a printed label with Boissier’s handwriting of the locality and genus name in black ink and the species epithet and his name abbreviation in red ink. The other sheet has only the locality on two small labels holding the two plants.

The protologue erroneously indicates that Boissier collected the material in April instead of March, as evidenced from all the material examined, including the holotype.

Pinard collected material of the species in the same year, but his collections are not considered as part of the type gathering because Boissier always listed him whenever Pinard was the collector.