Veronica macropoda 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 : 68

Veronica macropoda Boiss.

Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalum Novarum, ser. 1, 4:79 ( Boissier 1844).

TYPE CITATION. — Iran, Isfahan: “Hab. In Persia; Aucher ad Isphahan no. 5094 ”.

LECTOTYPE (DESIGNATED HERE). — “ Isphahan Aucher-Éloy-Herbier d’Orient no. 5094 ” (collected either 1835 or 1838), G[ G00768043 *].

ISOLECTOTYPES (designated here). — MO[ MO-176192!* ], P[ P04048025* , P04048028* ], K[ K001070289* ].

Nomenclatural note. Veronica macropoda is a rare annual species occurring from western Iran to Pakistan. Boissier (1844) described the species from a collection of Aucher-Éloy (no. 5094) from Isfahan. Several duplicates of this collection still exist but I assume that Boissier had only access to the one of his own collections, now in G. The species has not been investigated in more detail.