Iris sintenisii Janka (1877: 244)

Boltenkov, Eugeny V. & Guacchio, Emanuele Del, 2022, Taxonomic notes on Xiphion collinum (Iridaceae), Phytotaxa 576 (1), pp. 113-122 : 119

Iris sintenisii Janka (1877: 244) (name to be accepted according to EVB).

Type (lectotype, designated by Boltenkov & Mesterházy 2022: 6):— ROMANIA. Babadagh, Waldränder zwischen Baschbunar u. Teke , [fl.], 9 June 1874, Sintenis 799, Herb. P. Sintenis (LD1213150; available from: https://www.botmus.lu.se/Lund/Images/1213150. jpg) .

= Chamaeiris collina (N.Terracc.) Del Guacchio , comb. nov. (name to be accepted according to EDG) ≡ Xiphion collinum Terracciano (1872: 176) (basionym) ≡ Iris graminea var. collina (N.Terracc.) Fiori (1896: 226) ≡ I. collina (N.Terracc.) Lacaita (1921: 132) , nom. illeg., non Salisbury (1796: 45) (Art. 53.1 of the ICN). Type (lectotype, designated here):— ITALY. In sylvaticis apricis Campaniae, [fl.], June 1866, Terracciano s.n. (FI066659 [digital image!], sub I. collina Terracc. ; Fig. 2 ). Further original material:— ITALY. In apricis sylvaticis Campaniae, Caserta sul M. S. Nicola, [fl.], June 1870, Terracciano s.n., Herb. D ̂rfler (E01137465!, sub Xiphion collinum Terracc. ; Fig. 1 ).

= Iris lorea Janka (1877: 245) ≡ I. foetidissima subsp. lorea (Janka) Richter (1890: 258) ≡ Xiphion gramineum subsp. loreum (Janka) Arcangeli (1894: 157) ≡ Iris foetidissima var. lorea (Janka) Fiori (1907: 51) ≡ Chamaeiris sintenisii subsp. lorea (Janka) Crespo (2011: 66) ≡ Ch. lorea (Janka) Peruzzi et al. (2014: 276) . Type (lectotype, designated by Boltenkov & Mesterházy 2022: 6):— ITALY. Apulia, in paludosis pr. Cerignola, [fl.], 6 June 1875, [P.] Porta & [G.] Rigo ex itinere II italico no. 382 (P02167368 [digital image!], sub I. foetidissima Auct. ; available from: http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/p/p02167368).

—“ Iris collina ” Terracciano (1872: 21) , nom. inval. (Art. 38.1 of the ICN).

Etymology:—The epithet refers to the habitat where the species was first found (Latin adj. collînus, -a, -um, i.e., growing on hills).

Distribution:—The species occurs in Albania, Bulgaria, northern Greece, southern Italy, Moldova, North Macedonia, Romania, southeastern Serbia, northwestern Turkey, and western Ukraine ( Dykes 1913, Stjepanović 1976, Beldie 1979, Webb & Chater 1980, Mathew 1989, Barina et al. 2018, Futorna et al. 2018, Güner 2022, PFI 2022).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Specimen barcoded E01137465 at E (by permission of the Curator of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh).

FIGURE 2. Lectotype of the name Xiphion collinum N.Terracc. at FI (FI066659, by permission of the Curator of the Herbarium Centrale Italicum). In the frame: detail of the flower.