Veronica cuneifolia D.Don. subsp. atlantica Ball

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 : 74

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5252/adansonia2025v47a7
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15261799
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scientific name	Veronica cuneifolia D.Don. subsp. atlantica Ball
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Veronica cuneifolia D.Don. subsp. atlantica Ball View in CoL

Journal of Botany 13: 174 ( Ball 1875). — V. rosea Desf. var. atlantica (Ball) Murb. View in CoL , Acta Universitatis Lundensis, ser. 2, 19 (1): 46 ( Murbeck 1923).

TYPE CITATION. — Morocco, Souss-Massa-Draa: “Habitat in regione subalpina et alpina Atlantis Majoris - in jugo Tagherot 2200 m- 3000 m [ Morocco, Marrakesch-Tensift-El Haouz:] “in Monte Djebel Tezah 2200 m- 2800 m ”.

LECTOTYPE (designated here). — “ in jugoTagherot 2530-3630 m […] Ball 15. Majo 1871”, P[ P03413429* ; Fig. 4 View FIG ].

SYNTYPES. — “in Monte Djebel-Tezah 1700-3506 m […] Ball 21. Majo 1871”, P[ P03413429* ].

Nomenclatural note. Ball (1875) published the name V. cuneifolia subsp. atlantica based on one of his collections in Morocco. He related his new taxon to the Anatolian species V. cuneifolia , disregarding for unknown reasons the sympatric V. rosea published by Desfontaines (1798) much earlier from the Atlas Mountains. The description by Ball (1875) does not differ significantly from that of Desfontaines (1798). So, Ball’s taxon is considered a synonym of V. rosea (Rojas-Andrés et al. 2016) . Notably, Persoon (1805) published V. atlantica , a superfluous name since Persoon cited V. rosea in synonymy. Ball (1875) did not refer to Persoon’s name, so they are considered different names. The specimen in P, from the herbarium Cosson, is remarkable since it contains both type collections mentioned by Ball plus one collection by Ibrahim and has no indication that it was distributed by Kew. However, in his account of the flora or Morocco, Ball (1878) frequently mentioned communication with Cosson and exchange of specimens. No type specimens have been found in Kew and Edinburgh. A specimen in BM has a slightly different locality name and is not considered original material. The specimen from Tagherot ( Fig. 4 View FIG ) is chosen as lectotype since it is better preserved than the one from Monte Djebel-Tezah.

Kingdom	Plantae
Phylum	Tracheophyta
Class	Magnoliopsida
Order	Lamiales
Family	Plantaginaceae
Genus	Veronica