The new tribe Fourraeeae (Brassicaceae) and two Moroccan Arabis species transferred to the new genus Hurkaea
Author
Koch, Marcus A.
Department of Biodiversity and Plant Systematics, Center for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 345, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Author
Karl, Robert
Department of Biodiversity and Plant Systematics, Center for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 345, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Author
Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A.
Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, U. S. A. 63110
Author
German, Dmitry A.
South-Siberian Botanical Garden, Altai State University, Lenin Ave. 61, Barnaul, Russia
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Phytotaxa
2022
2022-04-08
543
1
41
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.543.1.4
journal article
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Hurkaea conringioides
(Ball) Al-Shehbaz, M. Koch, R. Karl, & D.A. German
,
comb. nov.
≡
Arabis conringioides
Ball (1873: 297)
.
Type indication: “
Hab.
in regione superiori Atlantis Majoris---in jugo Tagherot!
A
3000
m
ad
3500
m
; in monte Djebel Tezah!
A
2100
m
ad
2800
m
”.
Lectotype
(designated here):—
MOROCCO
: ‘Ex regione superiori
Atlantis Majoris
in cacumine Djebel Tezah, alt.
1700–3500 m
,
22 May 1871
,
J. Ball
s.n
. (
K-000239698
!
;
isolectotype
:
G-00023347
!)
.
Note.
Ball (1873)
cited
two syntypes
, and the one from Tagherot (K-000230696, K-000230698, G-00023348) was immature and consists of rosette plants. By contrast, the one designated above as
lectotype
consists of complete mature plants of which some are in flower and others are in fruit.
Two subspecies endemic to the High (Grand)
Atlas
of
Morocco
.
Key to subspecies
1a. Petals pink, 6–9 ×
3–5 mm
; style in fruit distinct,
0.5–1.5 mm
long; central and western
Atlas Mts
.................
subsp.
conringioides
1b. Petals white to light pink, 4–5.5(–7) ×
1.3–2 mm
; style in fruit obsolete; eastern
Atlas Mts.
..................................
subsp.
humbertii