Veronica campylopoda Boiss.
Creators: name: Albach, Dirk C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Plantaginaceae
Veronica
Veronica campylopoda

description: Veronica campylopoda Boiss.
Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalum Novarum, ser. 1, 4: 80. (Boissier 1844).
TYPE CITATION. — Egypt, South Sinai: “Hab. in Arabia petrea Schimper, Syria ad Aleppum Kotschy, Assyria ad Mossul Aucher no. 145 et Persia boreali no. 5090 ”.
LECTOTYPE. — Designated by Fischer (1981): 85, second-step lectotype designated here): “Arabia petraea, ad radices montis Sinai locis planis in glareosis graniticis, W. Schimper (Plantae Arabicae Petreae Ed. II Hohenacker 1843) no. 118, 19. Apr. 1835 ”, G[G00343626*].
ISOLECTOTYPES (designated here). — BREM!, FI*, G[G00343625*], HBG[HBG0512114, HBG0512115, HBG0512116 *], KW-Turcz.[no barcode!], KW-Besser[no barcode!], M[M0188536!*, M0188537!*], WU[WU 070352!], S [S-G-6332*], MPU[MPU008056!*, MPU014002!*], OXF!, P[P03882893*, P03883117*, P03883118*, P04048927*, P04048976 *, P04048965*], PRC![2 sheets].
SYNTYPES. — “in agris pinguioribus pr. Aleppum. 24. Apr. 1841, Th. Kotschy. Pl. alepp. kurd. moss. 145. Ed. Hohenacker 1843)”, BP[BP350300!], G[G00343623!, G00343624!, G00768040!], GOET[GOET011122!], H[C.345222*], HAL[HAL0101780!], JE[JE00009349!*, JE00009350!*], K[K001070286*], KW!, M[2 sheets!], MPU[MPU014004!], OXF!, P[P03882892*, P03882893*, P03883106*, P03883120*, P03883121*], S[S10- 21948*], STU!, WAG[WAG0004899*], WU[WU079595!]; “ Assyria ad Mossul”, Aucher-Éloy-Herbier d’Orient no. 1945 ”(likely collected 1835), MO[MO-176190!*], MPU[MPU014003!*], P[P03882889*, P03883112*]; “Pers. boreali Aucher-Éloy-Herbier d’Orient no. 5090 ”(likely collected 1837), G[G00343621!, G00343622!], JE, KW!, MO[MO-176189!*], OXF!, P[P03882898*, P03883115*].
Nomenclatural note. Before travelling to Abyssinia, Schimper collected on the Sinai Peninsula in 1835. There he collected, a small annual Veronica, which Boissier later used as syntype for the description of V. campylopoda. The other syntypes were collected by Kotschy near Aleppo (Syria), from Aucher-Éloy near Mossul (northern Iraq) and later in northern Iran (Boissier 1844). Veronica campylopoda is a widespread species found from Egypt to northwestern China. It is a very polymorphic species with three ploidy levels known (Albach et al. 2008). It is, therefore, probable that in the future the species may be split into multiple species. For that reason, it is essential to have a precise type locality, which excludes the second Aucher-Éloy specimen from becoming the lectotype of the species. Fischer (1981) lectotypified the species with the collection by Schimper but mentioned three herbaria. Therefore, a second-step lectotypification is necessary. Since Boissier surely saw the material from the Geneva herbarium and only one of the Schimper collections there was surely in possession of Boissier, this is here chosen as lectotype. Overall, 15 specimens of the type collections have been found in Paris with a complete set of four from the general herbarium and the herbarium Cosson.
description: Published as part of Albach, Dirk C., 2025, From just a few to the most type-rich herbarium for Veronica L. (Plantaginaceae) - The effect of digitization of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle herbarium in Paris, pp. 47-130 in Adansonia (3) (3) 47 (7) on pages 79-81, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2025v47a7, http://zenodo.org/record/15261686