Knautia dinarica (Murb.) Borbás (1894: 399)

Peruzzi, Lorenzo, Bartolucci, Fabrizio, Astuti, Giovanni, Bernardo, Liliana & Conti, Fabio, 2013, Knautia dinarica (Caprifoliaceae): taxonomy, typification and update of the Italian distribution, Phytotaxa 116 (1), pp. 34-40 : 35

Knautia dinarica (Murb.) Borbás (1894: 399)

Bas.:— Knautia sylvatica var. dinarica Murbeck (1891: 111) . Type (lectotype, here designated):—BOSNIA- HERZEGOVINA. In pratis alpinis Matorac montis Vranica planina, 1800–1900 m, 9 September 1889, Murbeck 1165781 (LD!; isolectotype WU! No. 0044885) .

Knautia sylvatica var. dinarica was described from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro (Vranica and Bjelasnica Mountains) ( Murbeck 1891). We traced eight herbarium sheets, kept in LD and WU, that were collected ante 1891 and match the protologue, so they can be considered as original material for the name. The best preserved and complete exsiccatum at LD is here selected as the lectotype. This specimen corresponds to the current concept of K. dinarica , but all the traced original material is showing only long hairs in the lower third of the individuals, in contrast with the description given by Ehrendorfer (1976), who refers to K. dinarica s.s. as a more or less pubescent plant showing also long hairs. According to the Art. 41.3 of the ICN ( McNeill et al. 2012) the new combination Knautia dinarica (Murb.) Borbás was validly published ( Borbás 1894), while the isonym proposed by Malý (1908: 233) has no nomenclatural status.