Veronica hederifolia L. var. gracilis F.Gérard

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 : 94

Veronica hederifolia L. var. gracilis F.Gérard

Revue de Botanique 8: 183 ( Gérard 1890), nom. illeg. (Art. 53.1; non V. hederifolia var. gracilis Peterm. ).

TYPE CITATION. — France “Assez commun dans les lieux cultivés, à Chatel, sur le muschelkalk, à Rambervillers, à la limite du muschelkalk et des grès bigarrés”.

LECTOTYPE (designated here). — “ Vosges: Chatel, champs cultivés , F. Gerard 27. Apr. 1888 ”, P[ P04964112 *].

ISOLECTOTYPES (designated here). — MPU[ MPU005259 !*], P[ P02415853 *, P03805450 *, P03944470 *] .

Nomenclatural note. Veronica hederifolia var. gracilis is described as slenderer than V. hederifolia , with less hairy leaves, paler flowers, cilia lobes of the calyx half less long than those of the latter and being about 1 millimeter in length. All these characters and the type specimens suggest that Gérard (1890) refers to V. sublobata , a species only separated much later ( Fischer 1967).