Veronica friesii 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 : 58

Veronica friesii Chaub.

Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 19: 232 ( Chaubard 1853).

TYPE CITATION. — “ V. friesii N., fig. 2”.

LECTOTYPE (designated here). — [Icon in] Chaubard (1853): t.9.

Nomenclatural note. Chaubard (1853) later also published a new French species, V. friesii . Chaubard suggested that it is close to V. agrestis , but leaves are ovate-oblong, base cordate, 11 crenations below, 13 or 9 teeth above, calyx lobes oblonglanceolate, base not widened, nerves drawn to the middle, not almost to the top and the style shorter. There is one specimen found in P labelled with V. friesii from the herbarium Puel, which resembles the figure in Chaubard (1853) but still belongs to today’s concept of V. agrestis . It was collected from “Paris – Montrouge, Versailles” and has a reference to the figure in Chaubard (1853). However, it is not clear who collected it and whether it was collected before publication. Therefore, the figure accompanying the protologue was used as lectotype.