Veronica surculosa Boiss. & Balansa

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 : 66

Veronica surculosa Boiss. & Balansa

Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalum Novarum, ser. 2, 3: 170 ( Boissier 1856).

TYPE CITATION. — Turkey, Nigde: “Hab. in regione alpina Tauro Orientalis supra Bulgarmaden [Bolkar Dagh] cl. Balansa”.

LECTOTYPE (designated here). — “B. Balansa, Pl. d’Orient, 1855. Veronica surculosa , sp. nov. (Boiss.) Région alpine du Taurus, au-dessus de Boulgarmaden . 16 Septembre”, G[ G00343591! ].

ISOLECTOTYPES (designated here). — G[ G00768526* ], P[ P03520326* , P03520327* ].

Nomenclatural note. Veronica surculosa is an accepted, alpine species restricted to the Taurus Mountains ( Fischer 1978). It is similar to V. dichrus and V. cuneifolia , which are not closely related according to DNA sequence analysis ( Doostmohammadi et al. 2022). Therefore, typification and further analysis of this species is important.