Nomenclatural types of some Pyrenean and Iberian Pedicularis (Orobanchaceae)

ABSTRACT

We present a list of nomenclatural types of 20 Pedicularis names at the specific or infraspecific rank present in the Pyrenees and/or the Iberian Peninsula. None of them has been explicitly typified to date. We studied materials from about twenty European herbaria, enabling us to locate and document the holotypes of seven of the names, as well as designate the lectotypes for 12 (a drawing in the case of Pedicularis lusitanica), a neotype for P. kerneri and an epitype for P. lusitanica. Other syntypes, isolectotypes and isoepitypes that could be located are also recorded in the list. Regarding the geographical origin, seven of the types were collected from the Pyrenees, such as those of the widespread P. pyrenaica and P. mixta, 10 from the rest of the Iberian Peninsula (three in Portugal and three in the Cantabrian range), and two from the Alps (those of P. allionii and P. kerneri, both also present in the Pyrenees). Finally, for the Cantabrian endemic plant first described as P. pyrenaica var. fallax, we propose the replacement name P. picoeuropeana.

KEYWORDS:

• Nomenclatural types
• Orobanchaceae
• Pedicularis
• Pyrenees
• Iberian peninsula
• Alps

Acknowledgments

We are very grateful to the curators and technicians of the following herbaria for providing help and images of the requested specimens: B (Robert M. Vogt), BCN (Antoni Sánchez Cuxart, Roser Guàrdia, Josep Vicens), C (Jens Soelberg), COI (Filipe Covelo), G (Fernand Jacquemoud in 2003), IBF (Michael Thalinger), K (Elizabeth Woodgyer in 2003), LISU – PRISC infrastructure (Ana Isabel D. Correia), MA (Mauricio Velayos during 1998-2003 and Leopoldo Medina), NCY (Carine Denjean), P (Alain Changy in 2003, Véronique Andro and Vanessa Invernon), TLM (Boris Presseq) and V (Walter Till in 2003). We also thank Prof. Walter Gutermann (University of Vienna, Austria) for providing us, years ago, with very valuable information on the typification of Pedicularis kerneri. Finally, we acknowledge two anonymous reviewers for suggesting improvements to the manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Author contributions

Ignasi Soriano: research design, herbarium and database work, data analysis, manuscript writing and editing; Neus Ibáñez: herbarium and database work, data analysis, manuscript editing; Neus Nualart: herbarium and database work, data analysis, manuscript editing.

Data availability statement

Digital data that support this study are openly available in Global Biodiversity Information Facility (https://www.gbif.org/), Recolnat Infrastructure (https://www.recolnat.org/) and the Catalogues of plant collections of the Real Jardin Botánico de Madrid (https://colecciones.rjb.csic.es/), and the Institut Botànic de Barcelona (https://www.ibb.csic.es/ca/col%c2%b7leccions/herbari/). Non-digital data are curated at the herbaria mentioned in the text.

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Funding

This work has received financial support from the projects Flora iberica V [MEC PB96-0186], Flora iberica VI [MCYT REN2002-04634-C05-01] and the Pyrenean Observatory of Climate Change, Axis 2: Biodiversity [POCTEFA 2007-2013], as well as the Consolidated Group of Biodiversity and Plant Biosystematics [GREB: 2017-SGR1116, 2021-SGR00315].