Veronica lyallii Hook.f.

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 : 90

Veronica lyallii Hook.f.

Flora Novae-Zelandiae 1: 196 ( Hooker 1853). — Hebe lyalli (Hook. f.) A. Wall, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 60: 385 (Wall 1929). — Parahebe lyallii (Hook. f.) W. R. B. Oliv., Records of the Dominion Museum, Wellington 1: 230 ( Oliver 1944).

TYPE CITATION. — New Zealand, Southland: “Milford sound, Lyall”.

LECTOTYPE (designated here). — K[ K001070733 *].

ISOLECTOTYPES (designated here). — K[ K001070732 *, K001070734 *], P[P04079577 *].

Nomenclatural note. The specimen in Kew is usually considered the holotype ( Garnock-Jones & Lloyd 2004) but the existence of three specimens in K, one given to Bentham in 1854, and one in P, given to the general herbarium in 1854, means that Hooker had most likely all specimens, probably separating them after the description of the new species and, thus, requiring a lectotypification. The specimen in P is obviously a small twig sent as a duplicate. Of the three specimens in K, K001070732 and K001070734 are obviously cut from the same sheet, whereas K001070733 is still complete and fits nicest to the protologue.