Veronica repens DC. var. cyanea Litard. & Maire

Albach, Dirk C., 2025, From just a few to the most type-rich herbarium for Veronica L. (Plantaginaceae) - The effect of digitization of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle herbarium in Paris, Adansonia (3) 47 (7), pp. 47-130 : 110

Veronica repens DC. var. cyanea Litard. & Maire

Mémoires de la Société des sciences naturelles du Maroc 4: 17 ( Litardière & Maire 1924).

TYPE CITATION. — “In ditionis Ourika jugo Tachdirt, ad alt. 3150 m.; in ditionis Reraya et ditionisTifenout scaturiginosis infra jugumTagherat, ad alt. 3.200 -3.350 m. (Lit. & Maire, 1922); in ditionis Reraya valle amnis Ouenkrim, ad alt. 2.900 -3.180 m.; in ditionis Tifenout valle amnis Ifni,ad alt. 3.150 -3.250 m., et valle amnis Quelga 3.020 -3.180 m.; in ditionis Goundafa valle amnis Agoundis, 3.320 m. (Lit. 1923)”.

LECTOTYPE. — Designated byMartinez-Ortega & Rico (2001b): “M. Grand Atlas, Ourika , Tizi-n-Tachdirt!, 3000-3200 m, 26.vii.1922, Dr. R. Maire ” MPU[ MPU000301 !*].

ISOLECTOTYPE (designated here). — P[ P00083132 *].

SYNTYPES. — “M. Grand Atlas, Reraya: […] Tizi-n-Tagherat, 3200 m […] 21.7.1922 Dr. M. Maire […] 3300-3350 m 22.7.1922 ”, MPU[ MPU000302 *, MPU000303 *]; “Litardière […]1923 […]Reraya: Ht. vallée du l’acif Ouenkrim, […] 24 juillet”, MPU[ MPU000304 *].

Nomenclatural note. The excursions of Maire, Verriet de Litardière and Emberger to Morocco in 1922 resulted in the description of V. repens var. cyanea , considered a vicariant of the Corsican V. repens , and in 1926 in the collection of V. chartonii Litard. & Maire.