Veronica chamaedryoides Bory & Chaub.

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 : 57

Veronica chamaedryoides Bory & Chaub.

Expédition scientifique de Morée 3 (2) Bot.: 15 ( Bory & Chaubard 1832). — V. chamaedrys subsp. chamaedryoides (Bory & Chaub.) M.A.Fisch.

TYPE CITATION. — Greece, Peloponnese: “les lieux montueux au bord des ombrages en allant à Phigalee, et en montant au Taygète”.

LECTOTYPE (designated here). — “Phygalee”, Chaubard P[ P03838848* ].

Nomenclatural note. Veronica chamaedrys is a polymorphic species distributed across Europe from the southernmost Peninsulas to Scandinavia and from the British Isles to the Urals and further to the Altai Mountains. Bardy et al. (2010) demonstrated that the populations of Greece and adjacent regions are genetically and morphologically slightly distinct. For these populations, the correct name is V. chamaedrys subsp. chamaedryoides based on the name by Bory and Chaubard. As expected, based on Bureau (1904) the type specimen is in the herbarium Drake in P. The specimen does not have a date but has notes by Chaubard indicating his change in opinion from V. chamaedrys to a new species.