Veronica peloponnesiaca Boiss. & Orph.

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 : 71

Veronica peloponnesiaca Boiss. & Orph.

Flora Orientalis 4: 462 ( Boissier 1879). — V. glauca subsp. peloponnesiaca (Boiss.et Orph.) Maire & Petitm., Matériaux pour servir à l’étude de la flore et de la géographie botanique de l’orient 4: 165 ( Maire & Petitmengin 1908).

TYPE CITATION. — Greece, Peloponnese: “habit in Argolide (Sprun!) habit in monte Malevo Laconiae supra Hagios Joannis 3000’- 4000’(Orph!), in regione superiori montis in Helicon Baeotiae (Orph!), in monte Aenos Cephaloniae 4000’-5000’(Heldr.), insula Tinos (Wiedem!)”.

LECTOTYPE. — Designated by Strid (2024): “Orphanides Flora Graeca Exsiccata no. 716. In monte Malevo Laconiae supra HajosJoannis 20 Apr./2 Maji 1857 Th. G. Orphanides”, G[ G00751921* ] .

ISOLECTOTYPES. — Designated by Strid (2024), without barcodes: JE[ JE 00003109* ], K, LE[ LE 00017167* ], S [ S 10-24874* ], WU[ WU 040140* ].

ISOLECTOTYPES (designated here). — G[ G00751967* ], K[ K000806834! , K000806835! ], P[ P03516822* , P03516823* ], UPS !

SYNTYPES. — Spruner (year unclear) “Argolide”, G[ G00751968* ]; Heldreich no. 3564 (9.V.1861), “Mt. Aenos”, G[ G00751969 *].

Nomenclatural note. V. peloponnesiaca is a common taxon, nowadays considered a subspecies of V. glauca . Of the five collections mentioned by Boissier and Orphanides ( Boissier 1879), three were found in the herbarium G. The name was lectotypified by Strid (2024) but without barcodes, omitting the specimens in Paris and Uppsala and not stating that Geneva and Kew have two types.