Dianthus pachygonus (Fisch & C.A.Mey.) Fassou, N.Korotkova, Nersesian & Borsch comb. nov.

≡ Tunica pachygona Fisch. & C.A.Mey., Index Sem. Hort. Bot. Petropol. 4: 50. 1838

= Saponaria cretica L., Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 1: 584. 1762 ≡ Petrorhagia cretica (L.) P.W.Ball & Heywood in Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot. 3: 142. 1964.

Type.

not designated

Lectotype.

(designated by Davis in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 22: 164. 1957): locality, date and collector unknown, Herb. Linnaeus No. 580.4 (LINN!).

Davis (1957) had pointed out the name Tunica cretica (L.) Fisch. & C.A.Mey. (basionym: Saponaria cretica L.) had been misapplied, whereas in fact the type of the name (the specimen in LINN) is an annual species that was later named Tunica pachygona Fisch. & C.A.Mey. Accordingly, the correct name in Dianthus would be D. pachygonus, the new combination published here because the epithet of Saponaria cretica is preoccupied in Dianthus by D. creticus Tausch. which is now treated as Dianthus fruticosus subsp. creticus (Tausch) Runemark.