Dianthus godronianus Jordan in Mem . Acad. Roy. Sci. Lyon, Sect. Sci., ser. 2, 1: 241. 1851. [January 19851]

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 godronianus Jordan in Mem. Acad. Roy. Sci. Lyon, Sect. Sci., ser. 2, 1: 241. 1851. [January 19851]

Dianthus caryophyllus godronianus ≡ D. caryophyllus subsp. godronianus (Jord.) P.Martin, Soc. Ech. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bassin Médit. 19: 93. 1984.

Dianthus sylvestris godronianus ≡ D. sylvestris var. godronianus (Jord.) Kerguélen, Lejeunia, Nouv. Sér., 120: 81. 1987.

Dianthus virgineus = D. virgineus L., Sp. Pl. 1: 412. 1753. Ind. Loc.: Coteaux stériles de la région des oliviers. Provence, Hyères, Marseille, Toulon, Apt, mont Ventoux, Vaucluse, Villeneuve; Dauphinée, Rabou près de Gap, Valence, Avignon, Languedoc, Viviers, pont du Gard, Uzés, Montpellier, Mende, Perpignan Corse, Calvi, Bastia, Cervione, Evisa, Otta, Campitello.

Type.

(lectotype here designated): Soleirol, Herb. Cors., 959 Dianthus virgineus L. (Gren. et Godr.), Dianthus sylvestris Duby, Bastia - mai 1823, P05000349 (photo!).

Note.

- Jordan (1851, 1856) believed that the plants referred by Godron (1847, 1848) to D. virgineus L. actually represent a different species, which he renamed D. godronianus . According to Godron (1848), this species grows in the surroundings of Montpellier, South France, and Corsica. A duplicate of the collection no. 959 by Soleirol, explicitly cited as seen by Godron (1848), was chosen as lectotype.

This specimen corresponds with the protologue and with the current application of the name. In Kerguélen (1993), this taxon is considered accepted at varietal rank ( D. sylvestris subsp. longicaulis var. godronianus ). In Jauzein (2014), this taxon is instead included in D. caryophyllus subsp. longicaulis (Ten.) Arcang., but the author argues that it could constitute a distinct subspecies ( D. caryophyllus subsp. godronianus (Jord.) P.Martin). Dianthus godronianus is instead considered a distinct species by Tison and de Foucault (2014), although these authors note that some coastal populations in Provence differ for a few morphological features. According to the lectotype features and the recent lectotypification of the latter name ( Domina et al. 2021), this species can be regarded as a heterotypic synonym of D. virgineus .