Veronica subacaulis Lam.

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 : 51-52

Veronica subacaulis Lam.

Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature 1: 44 ( Lamarck 1791)

TYPE CITATION. — “Ex Europae alpibus”.

LECTOTYPE (designated here). — P-LAM[ P00358058* ].

Nomenclatural note. Veronica subacaulis was also described from the European Alps as having a short stem with a twoflowered inflorescence on a leafless peduncle and obcordate capsules. This description matches that of V. aphylla L., which is not mentioned by Lamarck (1791) but rather he continued to use V. nudicaulis , which he distinguished from V. subacaulis by the shape of the capsule (ovate, not obcordate) and insertion of the peduncle (terminal, not lateral). Also, the specimen of V. subacaulis in his herbarium (P-LAM[P00358058]) matches V. aphylla . I assume that the difference between the two capsule types is likely to be based either on developmental stage or nutritional status.