Inula gnaphalodes Vent., Descr. Pl. Nouv.

Callmander, Martin W., Durbin, Olivier D., Lack, Hans-Walter, Bungener, Patrick, Martin, Pascal & Gautier, Laurent, 2017, Etienne-Pierre Ventenat (1757 - 1808) and the gardens of Cels and Empress Joséphine, Candollea 72 (1), pp. 87-132 : 106

32. Inula gnaphalodes Vent., Descr. Pl. Nouv. : tab. 75. 1802.

Ξ Pulicaria gnaphalodes (Vent.) Boiss.

Lectotypus (designated here): [ IRAN]: Anon. s.n. ( G [ G00341476 right-hand specimen]!).

Notes. – This species was described on the basis of material brought back by Bruguière and Olivier from Iran. Several collections have been located of this material at G-DC and P. A single collection exists in Ventenat’s herbarium but with two gatherings. The left part represents the cultivated collection from Cels’s garden and the right part a collection with, possibly, Desfointaines’s handwriting. We have not been able to trace this collection in the historical nor general collections at P. Lack (1980: 116) designated tab. 75 in Descriptions as the lectotype. The finding of original material supersedes this explicit lectotypification. We prefer to designate here the collection Anon. s.n. as the lectotype despite the fact that we neither know the collector nor the origin. This collection is a flowering specimen and possibly used for the preparation of the drawing. The cultivated collection from Cels’s garden is sterile and is here considered as original material G [ G00341476 left-hand specimen]. Other original material collected by Bruguière and Olivier documents the morphology of this plant in the wild (G-DC [ G00468136 ], P [ P02812002 , P02812003 , P02812004 , P03295331 ]).