Veronica agrestis L. var. subabortiva A.Reyn.

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 : 95

Veronica agrestis L. var. subabortiva A.Reyn.

Bulletin de l’Académie internationale de géographie botanique 11: 291 ( Reynier 1902). — V. filiformis var. subabortiva (A.Reyn.) A.Reyn. , Bulletin de l’association pyrénéenne pour l’échange des plantes 15: 17 ( Reynier 1905).

TYPE CITATION. — France, Bouches du Rhône: “dans les prairies riveraines de l’Huveaune au sud d’Aubagne, puis aux bords des champs humides au nord et à l’ouest de cette ville”.

LECTOTYPE (designated here). — “ Exsiccata de la Société Cénomane no. 400 ” P[ P03999078 *].

ISOLECTOTYPE (designated here). — P[ P04040689 *].

Nomenclatural note. The Reynier herbarium is in AIX but no specimen of V. agrestis var. subabortiva was found there. The specimens in P came there from the herbarium Giraudias ex Ecole Normale Supérieure and the herbarium Dr. Guétrot. Reynier (1902) first considered the new taxon that he found to be a variety of V. agrestis without capsules. Later ( Reynier 1905), he realized his mistake and recombined the name un-der V. filiformis , which was dispersed as cover of wine grapes from Georgia to southern France ( Lehmann 1942). Veronica filiformis is a self-incompatible species, rarely setting seed and full capsules in the introduced area ( Scalone & Albach 2012). Thus, there is no taxonomic value nowadays to this name.