Veronica ixodes 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 ixodes Boiss. & Balansa in Boiss.

Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalum Novarum, ser. 2, 3: 172 ( Boissier 1856). — V. hispidula subsp. ixodes (Boiss. & Balansa) M.A.Fisch. Flora of Turkey and the Aegean Islands 6: 709 ( Fischer 1978).

TYPE CITATION. — Turkey, Kayseri: “Hab. in regione alpina montis Masmeneu Dagh in via a Cilicia ad Caesaream siti cl. Balansa”.

LECTOTYPE (designated here). — “B. Balansa, Pl. d’Orient, 1855. Veronica ixodes , sp. nov. (Boiss.) Masmeneu-Dagh, à 2 lieues au sud de Césaréi. 8 août!”, G[ G00343632! ].

ISOLECTOTYPES (designated here). — G[ G00343631! ], GH[ GH00091942! ], K[ K001070264* ], P[ P03529507* , P03529516* ], Z!

POSSIBLE ISOLECTOTYPE. — US[ US00324055* ].

Nomenclatural note. Veronica ixodes is considered to differ from V. hispidula by having longer styles and pedicels, the latter longer than the bracts, a white corolla rather than a blue one, and a slightly different capsule shape ( Fischer 1978). The distribution ranges of both differ with V. ixodes occurring further south in southern Anatolia and Cyprus, although ranges overlap, and mixed populations occur ( Mouterde & Fischer 1984). Therefore, V. ixodes is nowadays considered a subspecies of V. hispidula .