Viola grisebachiana Visiani, 1861

Tomović, Gordana, Kuzmanović, Nevena, Barina, Zoltan, Đurović, Sanja, Jakovljević, Ksenija & Vukojičić, Snežana, 2013, Nomenclatural notes on three names in Viola Sect. Melanium (Violaceae), Phytotaxa 123 (1), pp. 56-60 : 58-59

Viola grisebachiana Visiani (in Visiani & Pančić 1861: 433)

Type:— SERBIA. Aleksinac district: Rtanj Mountain , July 1847, Pančić s.n. (lectotype BEOU 15052!, designated here). Fig. 2 .

Note:—Pančić collected the plant material on Rtanj Mountain in 1847 and identified it as V. calcarata Linnaeus (1753: 935) . This record was later published under the name V. nummulariifolia Allioni (1785: 98) by Pančić (1856: 506, ‘ M. Rtanj im Aleksinacer Kr.’). On the basis of this material Visiani later described V. grisebachiana (in Visiani & Pančić 1861: 436), citing Pančić’s record of ‘ V. nummulariifolia’ as a synonym. On the label of the lectotype now designated Pančić crossed out calcarata —his original name on the label, and added the name grisebachiana ( Fig. 2).

The specimen that Erben used for typification cannot be considered as a part of the original material, since it was collected eight years after the publication date of the protologue (Art 9.3 ICN):

Type :— SERBIA. Rtanj Mountain, Apr. 869 [April 1869], PančiĆ s.n. (neotype WU-Herb. Kerner, designated by Erben 1985: 434; isoneotype G)

Hence, Erben’s choice of the neotype is superseded with the original material rediscovered (Art. 9.19,

McNeill et al. 2012).