Typification of Edmond Boissier’s Cruciferae (Brassicaceae) names enumerated in Flora Orientalis
Author
AL-Shehbaz, Ihsan A.
Missouri Botanical Garden 4344 Shaw Boulevard St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
ihsan.al-shehbaz@mobot.org
Author
Barriera, Gabrielle
Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève Case postale 71 1292 Chambésy, Switzerland
gabrielle.barriera@ville-ge.ch
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Boissiera
2019
2019-12-23
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.7630433
180b8c6d-242a-4fff-a1a3-e88d2e1e51ed
978-2-8277-0088-2
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Isatis tomentella
Boiss. & Balansa
in Boiss., Diagn.
Pl. Orient. ser. 2, 5: 46. 1856
.
Isatis tinctoria
subsp.
tomentella
(Boiss. & Balansa) P.H. Davis
in
Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 26: 22. 1964
.
Type: “Hab. in regione mediâ montis
Sipyli
suprâ
Magnesiam
cl. Balansa”.
Holotypus
:
TURKEY
:
“Partie moyenne du
Mont Sipyle,
au-dessus Magnésie”,
10.VI.1854
,
Balansa 85
(
G-BOIS
[
G00332614
]; iso-:
BM
[
BM000582564
],
E
[
E00386106
,
E00386108
],
FI
[
FI
005708],
G
[
G00371657
,
G00371785
],
GOET
[
GOET002624
],
JE
[
JE00001299
],
K
[
K000642882
],
KW
[
KW000127957
],
LE
[
LE00012928
],
P
[
P00741495
,
P00741498
],
US
[
US00099984
],
W
[
W0050162
,
W0050163
,
W1889158145
],
WAG
[
WAG0004252
])
.
Notes.
– As indicated above, Boissier in
Flora Orientalis
reduced the species to synonymy of
I. tinctoria
var.
stenocarpa
.
This taxon, the preceding, and following entries clearly belong to the highly variable
I. tinctoria
complex, which is the most widespread naturalized species in the genus and the only one cultivated extensively in the past for the blue dye woad (
LEGGETT, 1944
). It is still cultivated in SW Asia, through the central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union, into western and central
China
.
The lines separating its component infraspecific taxa can be tenuous and, therefore,
DAVIS (1964)
is followed in treating the extremes at the subspecific rather than the specific rank. In addition to
Turkey
,
subsp.
tomentella
grows in
Greece
. However, in recognizing this entity at the species rank, TAN (2002: 127) erred in placing in its synonymy the earlier published
I. corymbosa
.
Perhaps the ideal solution for the Greek representatives of this complex is to follow
DAVIS (1964)
in recognizing them at the subspecific rank.