Ricotia sinuata Boiss. & Heldr.

AL-Shehbaz, Ihsan A. & Barriera, Gabrielle, 2019, Typification of Edmond Boissier’s Cruciferae (Brassicaceae) names enumerated in Flora Orientalis, Boissiera 72, pp. 1-193 : 84-85

Ricotia sinuata Boiss. & Heldr. in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient. 8: 30. 1849 ( Fig. 15C, p . 59).

Type: “Hab. in faucibus montis Climax propè Kourmalu Lyciae et in promontorio Alaya Pamphyliae in saxis inter frutices. (Heldreich.)”.

Lectotypus (first step designated by BURTT, 1951: 129; second step designated here): TURKEY: “rare au promontoir d’Alaya, dans les rocailles”, 18.IV.1845, Heldreich 564 ( G-BOIS [ G00332301 ]; isolecto-: BM [ BM00125406 ], E [ E00373140 ], G [ G00446141 , G00446142 ], GOET [ GOET002650 ], K [ K000484456 , K000484457 , K000484458 ], KW [ KW000127928 ], P [ P00747544 , P00747545 ], WAG [ WAG0004251 ]) . Syntypus: TURKEY: “in rupestribus apricis. Gorge du Mt. Climax près de Kourmalu. 3 heures à l’Ouest d’Adalia”, 4.V.1845, Heldreich 564 ( G-BOIS [ G00332303 ], KW [ KW000127927 ], P [ P00747543 ]) .

Notes. – BURTT (1951) narrowed the two collections cited in the protologue to one at K as an isotype, but he did not indicate where the type (or lectotype) is housed. The presence in the Geneva herbaria of three duplicates of the type collection, including two in G-BOIS, necessitated a second step lectotypification.

One might consider that discrepancy in the collection data between the lectotype and isolectotypes sheets (Heldreich s.n. “Ad rupes promont. Alaya. Pamphyliae. Apr. 1845 ”) to be significant, but the following arguments stand against that. First, the collection number on the lectotype was given by Heldreich on two other G-BOIS duplicates from different localities, just as he did for many other species in that herbarium. Second, the lectotype is a collection folder of two sheets, of which one has the original handwritten label by Heldreich and the other has the abbreviated handwritten label by Boissier. Finally, the printed, Boissier’s handwritten label on all isolectotypes, as is the case for many other species, does not perfectly match the original Heldreich handwritten label. The same discrepancy exits for the syntype in G-BOIS that has an original label with indications as above but with number 564 and a printed handwritten label by Boissier with: “In faucibus montis Climax. propè Kourmalu. Pamphylia. Mai 1845 ” without collection number indicated.

Two duplicates in Paris, P00747548 and P00747549, have the locality as Pamphylia and the year 1845 but no month. These may be part of the same lectotype collection or perhaps only syntypes.

Figures

Fig.15. A. Peltariopsis planisiliqua (Boiss.) N. Busch, Turkey; B. Aubrieta canescens (Boiss.) Bornm., Turkey; C. Ricotia sinuata Boiss. & Heldr., Turkey.