Veronica glaberrima Boiss. & Balansa var. glanduligera Bornm.

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 : 107

Veronica glaberrima Boiss. & Balansa var. glanduligera Bornm.

Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 48: 614 ( Bornmüller 1898).

TYPE CITATION. — Lebanon: “Sannin, an Bachrändern der subalpinen und alpinen Region, 1800-2300 m (exs. 1219)”.

LECTOTYPE (designated here). — “J. Bornmüller: Iter Syriacum 1897 No. 1219 Veronica conferta Boiss. ss. Glanduligera Bornm. Libani in excelsis jugi Sanin . 22-2300 m. s. m. 1897 VI. 16. leg. et determ. J. Bornmüller ”, JE[ JE00009351 !*].

ISOLECTOTYPES (designated here). — BP[ BP348462 !], BREM!, GB[ GB0783414 !], HBG[ HBG512109 *], K[ K001070258 !], OXF!, P[ P03529409 *, P03529410 *, P03529412 *], PRC[ PRC453963 *], W[ W1898-0004982 *], Z[ Z51386 !*].

Nomenclatural note. The small annual species of V. sect. Acinifolia have caused a lot of problems due to the reduced habit (see for example above). Bornmüller (1898) described V. glaberrima var. glanduligera from Lebanon without discussion of its affinity. On the type material, though, he used the name V. conferta var. glanduligera . Fischer (1972) separated this variety from V. glaberrima s.str. and synonymized it under V. nudicaulis . Later, Fischer (1978) synonymized V. glaberrima with V. pusilla and V. nudicaulis with V. hispidula . The two species are well-separated phylogenetically and by seed ultrastructure ( Muñoz-Centeno et al. 2006) but still are difficult to separate based on herbarium material. Therefore, Bornmüller’s type material would ideally be investigated in detail.