Verbascum pannosum Visiani

Clementi, Moreno, Anačkov, Goran, Miola, Antonella & Vukojičić, Snežana, 2015, Typification and taxonomical notes on the names published by Roberto de Visiani and Josif Pančić in Plantae Serbicae Rariores aut Novae-Decas II, Phytotaxa 224 (1), pp. 29-44 : 38

Verbascum pannosum Visiani in Visiani & Pančić (1865: 475) ( Fig. 7)

Lectotype (designated here):—Illustration in Visiani & Pančić (1865: t.14).

Additional specimens examined:— SERBIA. Иванова Ливада [Ivanova Livada], Jul[io] [1]863, J. Pančić s.n., (BEOU-7516!).

Note:—The additional specimen in BEOU bears the name “ Verbascum niveum Ten.”, later corrected to “ pannosum Vis. & P ”. The unpublished name “ Verbascum montanum Pančić ” is cited as a synonym in the protologue, but the type of Verbascum montanum Schrader (1809) is explicitly excluded, so Visiani’s name is legitimate. Since we were unable to find any specimen that was certainly available to Visiani (and the name was published by he alone), we are forced to select the illustration as a lectotype, although we know that no species published jointly by Visiani and Pančić were studied by Visiani alone (see Clementi et al. 2015) and the additional specimen was certainly available to Pančić before the publication of the protologue. This taxon is now generally treated as a subspecies of Verbascum longifolium Tenore (1811: 16) , as Verbascum longifolium subsp. pannosum (Visiani & Pančić) Murbeck (1933: 144) (Euro+Med 2015).