Achyranthes sicula

Raus, Thomas, 2022, Taxonomic, nomenclatural and floristic review of Amaranthaceae of Greece and neighbouring countries, Willdenowia 52 (3), pp. 335-357 : 337

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scientific name	Achyranthes sicula
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Treatment

1. Achyranthes sicula View in CoL (L.) All., Auct. Syn. Meth. Stirp.

Hort. Regii Taur.: 41. 1773 ≡ Achyranthes aspera var.

sicula L., Sp. Pl.: 204. 1753. – Lectotype (designated by

Iamonico 2014a: 416): Herb. Linn. No. 287.1 (LINN).

= Achyranthes argentea Lam., Encycl. 1: 545. 1785 ≡ Achyranthes aspera var. argentea (Lam.) Boiss., Fl. Orient. 4: 993. 1879. – Lectotype (designated here): Europe , France, H[ortus] R[egius] Parisiensis (SEV SEVH4073 , verified by F. J. Salgueiro & S. Talavera in sched. 1998; image available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.sev-h4073).

Remarks — Lamarck (1785: 545) based the description of Achyranthes argentea on plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden of Paris and seen by him in the living state (“cultivé au Jardin du Roi, (v. v.)”). Salgueiro & Talavera (SEVH4073, in sched., unpubl.) were the first to identify a specimen from the Royal Botanic Garden in Paris now kept in Sevilla as material suitable for lectotypification of the name but failed to formally fulfil the requirements of Shenzhen Code Art. 7.11.

Achyranthes sicula View in CoL was collected once, around 1820, by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg on Rodos, the plant probably having escaped from cultivation ( Rechinger 1944: 125); it was never recollected since and was therefore deleted from the current checklist of Greek vascular plants ( Dimopoulos & al. 2013; Raus 2016). The plate no. 244 of A. argentea View in CoL in Sibthorp’s Flora graeca does not refer to a Greek locality but shows a plant from Sicily, found by John Sibthorp in the early summer of 1786 ( Strid & Strid 2010: 88–89).