Hurkaea conringioides (Ball) Al-Shehbaz, M. Koch, R. Karl, & D.A. German, 2022

Koch, Marcus A., Karl, Robert, Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A. & German, Dmitry A., 2022, The new tribe Fourraeeae (Brassicaceae) and two Moroccan Arabis species transferred to the new genus Hurkaea, Phytotaxa 543 (1), pp. 41-50 : 46

Hurkaea conringioides (Ball) Al-Shehbaz, M. Koch, R. Karl, & D.A. German , comb. nov.

≡ Arabis conringioides Ball (1873: 297) .

Type indication: “ Hab. in regione superiori Atlantis Majoris---in jugo Tagherot! A 3000 m ad 3500 m; in monte Djebel Tezah! A 2100 m ad 2800 m ”. Lectotype (designated here):— MOROCCO: ‘Ex regione superiori Atlantis Majoris in cacumine Djebel Tezah, alt. 1700–3500 m, 22 May 1871, J. Ball s.n. ( K-000239698 ! ; isolectotype: G-00023347 !) .

Note. Ball (1873) cited two syntypes, and the one from Tagherot (K-000230696, K-000230698, G-00023348) was immature and consists of rosette plants. By contrast, the one designated above as lectotype consists of complete mature plants of which some are in flower and others are in fruit.

Two subspecies endemic to the High (Grand) Atlas of Morocco.

Key to subspecies

1a. Petals pink, 6–9 × 3–5 mm; style in fruit distinct, 0.5–1.5 mm long; central and western Atlas Mts ................. subsp. conringioides

1b. Petals white to light pink, 4–5.5(–7) × 1.3–2 mm; style in fruit obsolete; eastern Atlas Mts. .................................. subsp. humbertii