Dianthus contractus var. evolutus Lojac., Fl. Sicul. 1(1): 165. 1888. [September 1888]

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 contractus var. evolutus Lojac., Fl. Sicul. 1(1): 165. 1888. [September 1888]

Dianthus arrostoi = D. arrostoi C.Presl, Delic. Prag. 60. 1822. Ind. Loc.: "Sulle più alte vette delle Nebrodi sui terreni ghiaiosi o sulle rupi calcaree di Serre di Quacedda. Juntera Minà Pal!".

Type.

(neotype here designated): Dianthus contractus Jan., Dianthus constrictus Janka, In asperis calcareis elatioribus montis Nebrodes, Julio, M. Lojacono Pojero, P 05052873 (photo!).

Note.

Neither the original material nor traces of this taxon were found in the herbaria consulted and among the documents accompanying the centuries distributed by Lojacono ( Aghababyan et al. 2012; Domina et al. 2014). We chose to designate as a neotype the single specimen found, which is at least collected by Lojacono.

The neotype designated here matches the protologue and allows to consider this name as an heterotypic synonym of D. arrostoi C.Presl. Compared to the lectotype of D. contractus designated by Bacchetta et al. (2010: 151: s.l., s.d., Jan, NAP-GUSS!), and to the lectotype of D. arrostoi designated by Camarda and Corrias (1987: 417), this variety differs only by the more elongated scapes.