Clypeola elegans Boiss. & A. Huet in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient. ser. 2, 5: 38. 1856.

Type: “Hab. in Armeniâ inter Zarbas et Haho cl. Huet du Pavillon”.

Holotypus: TURKEY: “Inter Zarbas et Haho”, 3000'–4000' [910–1220 m], VI.1853, Huet du Pavillon s.n. (G-BOIS [G00332469]; iso-: FI [FI 005704], G [G00389755, G00389756, G00389757], K [K000697095, K000697097], P [P00835155, P00835156, P00835157]) .

Notes. – CULLEN (1965) listed a collection of Huet du Pavillon from between Erzurum and Ispir, but no such collection was cited in the original protologue.

The holotype is a collection folder of three sheets only one of which is labeled.