Iris pseudopumila Tineo, Cat. Pl. Hort. Panorm.

Barone, Giulio, Domina, Gianniantonio, Gristina, Emilio Di, Mirabile, Giulia & Gargano, Maria Letizia, 2023, Typification of names published by Vincenzo Tineo from Sicily, Phytotaxa 612 (2), pp. 139-147 : 141

4. Iris pseudopumila Tineo, Cat. Pl. Hort. Panorm. : 283. 1827. [after 1 December 1827]

Ind. Loc.:—“In montosis prope Panormum; San Martino”.

Neotype (here designated):—[Sicily] Iris pseudo-pumila lutea Tin. , prope Panormum, s. d., V. Tineo s. n. ( K000464975 photo! Image available at: http://specimens.kew.org/herbarium/ K000464975 ).

Note:—Epithet originally published as “ pseudo-pumila ”, to be corrected in “ pseudopumila ” (Art. 60.9 of ICN).

No certain original material was found in the studied herbaria. We found 3 specimens at K (barcodes K000464973 , K000464974 , and K000464975 ) collected by Vincenzo Tineo, but without collection dates. K000464973 reports only Sicily, includes two individuals lacking the rhizome, fixed to the same sheet; K000464974 and K000464975 are mounted in the same sheet, both are coming from the surroundings of Palermo, the first one ( K000464974 ) includes a single individual with purple tepals lacking the rhizome, the second ( K000464975 ) includes two individuals with yellow tepals, purple at the apex and streaked with purple at the base, one of these individuals is complete with rhizome. K000464975 includes two labels: “ Iris pseudo-pumila lutea Tin , prope Panormum, Comm. Tineo” and “Herb. J. Ball, F.R.S., August 1890 ”. We select here K000464975 as neotype of the name because better fits the original description, being complete in all its parts. In the wild the species forms extensive populations made up of individuals with yellow tepals streaked with purple; individuals with entirely yellow or entirely purplish tepals are also found. The neotype here designated corresponds to the current concept of the species (Colasante 2018).