Swertia punctata Baumg., Enum. Stirp. Transsilv. 1: 190 (1816)

Novikov, Andriy, 2023, An annotated nomenclatural checklist of endemic vascular plants distributed in the Ukrainian Carpathians, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 103921-103921 : 103921

Swertia punctata Baumg., Enum. Stirp. Transsilv. 1: 190 (1816)

Swertia punctata ≡ Swertia perennis subsp. punctata (Baumg.) Ciocârlan, Fl. Ilustr. Rom. Vol. 2: 104 (1990), non S. dichotoma var. punctata T.N.Ho & J.X.Yang; POWO: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/3007716-4

Swertia punctata = Swertia perennis M.Bieb. ex Boiss., Fl. Orient. [Boissier] 4(1): 78 (1879), non L.; GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/species/8516331; GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/species/7945478; IPNI: https://ipni.org/n/371025-1; BHL: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18114750#page/86

Swertia punctata = Swertia stigmantha K.Koch, Linnaea 23: 586 (1850); GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/species/5595375; IPNI: https://ipni.org/n/371096-1; WFO: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000497939; POWO: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/371096-1; BHL: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109824#page/594

Swertia punctata - Swertia perennis L., Sp. Pl. 1: 226 (1753) [p. p. Festuca minor ]; CoL: https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/9KSFD; GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/species/7270211; IPNI: https://ipni.org/n/371026-1; WFO: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000498075; POWO: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/371026-1; BHL: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358245#page/238

Conservation status

In Ukraine - EN ( Onyshchenko et al. 2022).

Distribution

SE Carpathian endemic.

Notes

GBIF (https://www.gbif.org/species/5595494, accessed on 06.06.2023), POWO (https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/371096-1, accessed on 06.06.2023) and WFO (https://list.worldfloraonline.org/wfo-0000498017, accessed on 06.06.2023) provide S. stigmantha K.Koch amongst the synonyms of S. punctata . However, S. stigmantha has been described from Kazbek Mt. in the Caucasus and in its protologue, it was indicated that this species is just similar to S. perennis L. and S. punctata ( Koch 1850: pp. 586-587). Perhaps, due to the occasional synonymisation of S. stigmantha and S. punctata within the framework of S. perennis , these two species were considered as direct synonyms. However, they are not - S. punctata occurs in the Carpathians and has only a few confirmed localities outside these mountains - in Bulgaria and Kosovo ( Tan and Vladimirov 2001, Anchev et al. 2009, Kliment et al. 2016).

Boissier (1879), on page 78, mentioned S. punctata for Hungarian Mts. and Transylvania and provided S. Swertia perennis in the sense of M.Bieb., non L. amongst its synonyms. However, for some reason, he also included the Caucasian plants S. iberica Fisch. ex C.A.Mey. and S. obtusa var. albiflora Ledeb. in S. punctata .