Dianthus aggericola Jord. in Billot, Annot.: 48. 1856. [December 1856]

Domina, Gianniantonio, Astuti, Giovanni, Bacchetta, Gianluigi, Barone, Giulio, Resetnik, Ivana, Terlevic, Ana, Thiebaut, Melanie & Peruzzi, Lorenzo, 2021, Typification of 14 names in the Dianthus virgineus group (Caryophyllaceae), PhytoKeys 187, pp. 1-14 : 1

Dianthus aggericola Jord. in Billot, Annot.: 48. 1856. [December 1856]

Dianthus virgineus = D. virgineus L., Sp. Pl. 1: 412. 1753. Ind. Loc.: "du Reculet (Ain)".

Type.

(lectotype here designated): Dianthus aggericola Jord., du Reculet, 8 July 1854 [A. Jordan], LY0079734 !

Note.

No other original material was found in the surveyed herbaria. According to the label, this plant was originally collected in Reculet and then grown in Jordan’s garden, where it was collected in July. As a matter of fact, besides his huge herbarium and library, Alexis Jordan owned a one-hectare experimental garden. We know that he used it to sow most species every year, while maintaining alive perennial ones, and that he regularly made herbarium sheets from these cultivated plants. In this context, the notion of original material requires particular attention ( Thiebaut and Tison 2016).

The lectotype designated here matches the protologue and corresponds to the current application of the name, which is considered a heterotypic synonym of D. godronianus Jord. in Kerguélen (1993), in turn, currently considered a heterotypic synonym of D. virgineus ( Domina et al. 2021). The lectotype of D. aggericola and that of D. virgineus , have the same leaf length and width, uniflowered scapes, the same length and shape of outer and inner bracts, the same calyx length and shape. We, therefore, confirm this synonymy.