Teucrium skorpilii Velenovský (1889: 39)

Zbiljić, Miloš, Lakušić, Dmitar, Stevanoski, Ivana & Kuzmanović, Nevena, 2022, Lectotypification of names related to Teucrium montanum L. (Lamiaceae) reported for the Balkan peninsula, Phytotaxa 530 (2), pp. 198-204 : 202

Teucrium skorpilii Velenovský (1889: 39)

≡ Teucrium montanum var. skorpilii (Velen.) Diklić (1974: 356)

Lectotype (designated here):— BULGARIA. Sliven, mountain Balkan , Tvrdica [m. Tvrdica Balkan], rocky grounds [in saxosis], 1888, Škorpil s.n. (PRC451944!, scan seen; image of the lectotype available at

http://herbarium-prc.natur.cuni.cz/jacq-viewer/viewer.html?rft_id=prc_451944&identifiers=prc_451944).

Notes:— The name Teucrium skorpilii was proposed by Velenovský (1890) to describe specimens collected by Škorpil in August 1888 on the rocks of Mount Tvrdica (“ Tvrdica-Balkan ”) in Bulgaria. Velenovský (1890) described T. skorpilii as a perennial plant completely covered with dense, more or less long, white-grey, protruding hairs, with toothed calyxes of which three teeth are larger and broadly triangular with abruptly setaceous narrowed tips, and with leaves that are revolute almost to the central vein. The species is close to T. montanum and should not be confused with T. pannonicum and T. parnassicum . The original material is preserved at the herbarium PRC (451944), and it fits with the description provided in the protologue. The label on this specimen is not the original written by Škorpil , the handwriting is of Velenovský. Škorpil sent the herbarium material to Velenovský in the autumn a year before he published the new name ( Velenovský 1889), their collaboration and joint field trips in Bulgaria are well documented ( Křivka & Holubec 2010). On this specimen there is a revision label by J. Soják stating that the specimen is typus for the name Velenovský published. An additional red label with “ HOLOTYPUS ” was added by a curator of the PRC based on Soják’s note (P. Mraz pers. comm.). According to Art. 9.1. Note 1, if the author used only one specimen or illustration (cited or uncited), when preparing the description of the new taxon, it must be accepted as the holotype. However , the possibility that the author used additional, uncited specimens or illustrations (which may have been lost or destroyed) must always be considered. Taking this into account, we prefer to designate the specimen PRC 451944 as the lectotype of the name T. skorpilii , as we cannot be sure whether Velenovský used only one specimen when describing the new species.