Veronica cariensis 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 : 65

Veronica cariensis Boiss.

Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalum Novarum, ser. 1, 4: 75 ( Boissier 1844).

TYPE CITATION. — Turkey, Denizli: “Hab. in arenosis regionis montanae alpium anatoliae, Cadmus supra Gheyra [Geyre], in via inter Gheyra et Denisleh, Tmolo ad Bozdagh [prov. Manisa]”.

LECTOTYPE (designated here). — “Tmolus ad Bozdagh”, G[ G00768538* ].

ISOLECTOTYPES (designated here). — GOET[ GOET011125 !], ( K-Benth001070229! ], K[ K001070231* ] , KW!, LY[ LY0467569* ], MW[ MW0594684* ], P[ P03962553* , P03882983* , P03882985* , P03882987* , P03882992* ].

Nomenclatural note. With regard to V. cariensis, Boissier mentions three collection localities, 1. “Cadmus supra Gheyra”, 2. “in via inter Gheyra et Denisleh” and 3. “Tmolo ad Bozdagh” in southwestern Turkey. However, among the twelve original specimens located nine have the same label combining the two localities “Tmolus, Cadmus supra Gheyra”, which are 120 km apart from each other. Only the specimen in Boissier’s herbarium has clearly the locality “Tmolus ad Bozdagh” and the specimen in Bentham’s herbarium only has “Cadmus”. The latter specimen seems to have been sent to Bentham in anticipation of his revision of Scrophulariaceae ( Bentham 1846) before preparing the other specimens, which were sent to other colleagues based on combining collections from two collection sites. In the light of this, the specimen in G is considered the lectotype and all other isolectotypes. They demonstrate that V. cariensis is a synonym of V. cuneifolia subsp. cuneifolia Don.