Hieracium robustum var. gaubae Bornm. & Zahn in Bornmüller & Gauba (1937: 320).

Ind. loc.: “ Elburs, bei Allangeh längs der Bachufer (15.9.1933).”

Holotype:— IRAN: Teheran, Allangeh längs der Bachufer, 15 September 1933, E. Gauba (B barcode B 10 0460471!).—Current name: Hieracium robustum subsp. syrmiense (Degen & Zahn in Zahn 1909a: 126) Gottschlich (2007: 365).

Remarks: —Negligible taxon. The specimen bears the handwritten description by Zahn and a copy of the printed protologue. Plant deformed by gall insects. The indicated characters for Hieracium robustum var. gaubae fall within the variability range of H. robustum subsp. syrmiense .