Veronica pusilla Kotschy

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 : 78

Veronica pusilla Kotschy

Plantarum Persiae Australis (Editio Hohenacker): 717 (Kotschy 1845).

TYPE CITATION. — Iran, Kuhgiluyeh: “Th. Kotschy. Pl. Pers. Austr. Ed. R. F. Hohenacker. 1845 717. Veronica (Veronicastrum) pusilla Kotschy ms. n. sp. […] In l. humidis m. Kuh-Daena [=Kuh-e-Dana]. D. 21. Jul. 1842.”.

LECTOTYPE (designated here). — W[ W1889-0017662!* ].

ISOLECTOTYPES (designated here). — BP[ BP349650! , BP349651 !], FI[ FI009716!* ], G[ G00673716* ], GOET[ GOET011132 !], HAL[ HAL0101774 !], JE[ JE00000183!* ], K[ K001070325* ], KW[KWherb.Turcz.!], L[ L.2804852* ], M[ M0188516!* ], MO[ MO-176629!* , MO-176630!* ], O[ O2246078* ], P[ P03555823* , P03555825* , P03555827* ], PR[ PR377330! ], PRC!, S[ S10-24939* ], TUB!, UPS!, US[ US00324228* ], W[ W0053060!* , W1889-0155030!* ], WAG[ WAG0003315 *], WU[ WU070322! , WU070322* ].

Nomenclatural note. Veronica pusilla Kotschy is a small, annual species belonging to V. sect. Acinifolia. Since there is a description included on the label, the name is validly published and precedes V. pusilla Benth. Bentham (1846) apparently learned about V. pusilla Kotschy after having decided on his own V.pusilla and tried to give the name by Kotschy a nomen novum, V. perpusilla Boiss. ex Benth. The input of Boissier is not clear. Bentham (1846) cites two collections for V. perpusilla , which are nowadays considered to belong to two species, Kotschy no. 717, the type of V. pusilla Kotschy , and no. 531, which is considered to be V. hispidula ( Fischer 1981) . If the name V. perpusilla Boiss. ex Benth. is lectotypified by the collection Kotschy no. 531, this name would have priority over the established name V. hispidula Boiss. & A.Huet. Since it apparently was the intention of Boissier and Bentham that V. perpusilla Boiss. ex Benth. is identical with V. pusilla Kotschy , the name is lectotypified with Kotschy no. 717. Manfred Fischer labelled one specimen of Kotschy no. 717 in Vienna as holotype, also cited as such in Fischer (1981) but this is considered here as the intention to use it as lectotype.