Veronica sibthorpioides Debeaux, Degen & Hervier

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 : 75

Veronica sibthorpioides Debeaux, Degen & Hervier

Bulletin de l’Académie internationale de géographie botanique 15: 116 ( Hervier 1905).

TYPE CITATION. — “Habitat in Hispania meridionali. In saxosis umbrosis calcareis Montis Sierra de Cazorla, alt. ca. 1600 m. s. m. PR [PRov. Jaen]; rarissimam mense junio 1901 detexit cel. E. Reverchon (exsicc. a. 1901, no 129 sub nom, erron. Sibthorpiae Europaea); dein in Monte Sierra del Cuarto regni granatensis relegit anno 1902. (Exsicc. No. 1302)”.

LECTOTYPE. — Designated by Sánchez Agudo et al. (2012): Spain, Jaën: “Sierra de Cazorla, saxosis umbrosis calcareis, alt. ca. 1600 m. […] junio 1901 ”, E. Reverchon (exsicc. no. 129, sub nom. erron. Sibthorpiae europaea ), CL[ CL20428 , not seen].

ISOLECTOTYPES (designated here). — H[ C.338576* ], JE[ JE00007187* ], LY[ LY0467457* ], P[ P00208394* ] .

SYNTYPES. — “Dein in Monte Sierra del Cuarto regni granatensis relegit anno 1902. (Exsicc. Nº 1302)”: BP[ BP638783! , BP465482! , BP465483! , BP465476 - BP465481! , BP349837! ], GZU[ GZU000101512 *], P[ P00208397* , P03838569* , P03975616* , P05196692* ], UPS!, W[ W1927-0008597! , W1974-15913! ].

Nomenclatural note. The name Veronica sibthorpioides was earlier lectotypified by Sánchez Agudo et al. (2012) with a specimen from CL without further explanation and no further isolectotypes.In the protologue two collections are cited, one from 1901 (“Montis Sierra de Cazorla, alt.ca. 1600 m.s. m.[…] no.129 sub nom. erron. Sibthorpiae europaea ) and one from 1902 (Monte Sierra del Cuarto […] Exsicc. no. 1302) ( Hervier 1905) with the former used as lectotype by Sánchez Agudo et al. (2012). The specimen from Paris (P00208394) is labelled by J. A. Sánchez Agudo as lectotype but not mentioned in the typification, probably because it was still filed under Sibthorpia europaea .Two more isolectotypes (JE00007187,H[C.338576])bear the identification Sibthorpia europaea with the new determination written above it.Interestingly,LY0467457 is also collected in 1901 from Sierra de Cazorla but bears already the name Veronica sibthorpioides with authors “Debeaux et Reverch.”. However, further original material exists, collected in May 1903 “Sierra de Castril, rochers calcaires ombragés, 1 700 mètres” with the name given as “ Veronica sibthorpioides Debeaux Reverch. ” GZU000101528, H[C.338575], JE00007182-JE00007186, LY0467449, LY0467455, LY0736308, O-V2246039, P00208395, S10- 25572,ZT10342 indicating the original idea of the two collectors to publish the name without Degen and Hervier. Collections of Reverchon from 1904 (“Barrancon de Valentina ”) then bear the designation “Debeaux et Degen” (L.2807862, LY0467458, LY0467454, P00208396).