A hotspot of endemism: Oreophytic Taraxacum species (Compositae, Crepidinae) in the mountains of Bulgaria Author Štěpánek, Jan 0000-0003-4038-1998 Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ- 25243 Průhonice 1, Czech Republic. & jan. stepanek @ ibot. cas. cz; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4038 - 1998 jan.stepanek@ibot.cas.cz Author Kirschner, Jan 0000-0002-6303-713X Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ- 25243 Průhonice 1, Czech Republic. & jan. kirschner @ ibot. cas. cz; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6303 - 713 X jan.kirschner@ibot.cas.cz text Phytotaxa 2022 2022-10-20 569 1 1 139 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.569.1.1 journal article 172051 10.11646/phytotaxa.569.1.1 f8f7b3a8-119f-438c-95d6-5d701a007727 1179-3163 7235182 Taraxacum sitnjakovense Doll (1978: 634 , Plate LXXIII), described as a member of T. sect. Alpina Type indication:—“Typus: Holotypus im h Doll / Locus typicus: Borovez, am Sessellift, ca. 1700 m . 11. 7. 76. Doll“; also Plate LXXIII: „ Taraxacum sitnjakovense Doll sp. nov. – Holotypus ”. Type :— Flora von Bulgarien , Rila-Gebirge , Borovez , Sessellift., 11 Jul [19]76. R . Doll [as Taraxacum sintjakovense sp. nov. Holotypus ! ] ( JE , no. det. 19266, holotype ) . Specimens of the OM:—There is a single herbarium specimen under this name; plants on the sheet agree with those photographed on Plate LXXIII. The specimen is a clear holotype . Conclusion:—Neither the protologue nor the type specimen itself give any hint to the interpretation. The type specimen is of the worst possible quality among thousands of type Taraxacum specimens we have seen during our career (the holotype consists of two independent parts, a late, sciomorphic rosette and a damaged, late, mouldy capitulum). We have no choice other than adding this name among nomina damnabilia .