Veronica paederotae Boiss.

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 : 69

Veronica paederotae Boiss.

Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalum Novarum, ser. 1, 4: 78 ( Boissier 1844).

TYPE CITATION. — Iran, Zanjan: “Hab. in montibus Elamout [ Alamout ] Persiae borealis Aucher No 5088 ”(collected 30.VIII.1837).

LECTOTYPE (designated here). — “ Elamoud Aucher-Éloy-Herbier d’Orient No. 5088 ”, G[ G00768428* ].

ISOLECTOTYPES. — K[ K001070252* ], KW-Turcz.[no barcode!], MO[ MO-1617682! ], W[ W0053059! ].

Nomenclatural note. Veronica paederotae is likewise a perennial herb, scrambling along alpine pebbles in the Alborz range of northern Iran. It is characterized by an unusually long corolla tube. Its position in V. subg. Pentasepalae , along with other perennial, alpine species from Southwest Asia was confirmed by Albach et al. (2004a) but it occupies a seemingly isolated position ( Doostmohammadi et al. 2022). The type collection (Aucher-Éloy no. 5088) is again fairly widespread but again it is likely that Boissier only saw the Geneva material. It is surprising that this collection is missing in Paris, but it is likely that it is misfiled somewhere given that Aucher-Éloy did not initially label this collection as Veronica .