Rothia tenuifolia Tineo, Cat. Pl. Hort. Panorm.

Barone, Giulio, Domina, Gianniantonio, Gristina, Emilio Di, Mirabile, Giulia & Gargano, Maria Letizia, 2023, Typification of names published by Vincenzo Tineo from Sicily, Phytotaxa 612 (2), pp. 139-147 : 143

8. Rothia tenuifolia Tineo, Cat. Pl. Hort. Panorm. : 280. 1827. [after 1 December 1827]

≡ Andryala tenuifolia (Tineo) DC., Prodr. 7: 244. 1838.

Ind. Loc.: —“In arvis prope Panormum; alli Ficarazzi”.

Neotype (here designated):—[Sicily] Andryala tenuifolia Tin. in D. C. Prodr 7 p 245, in arvis arenosis ficarazzi, May 1879, M. Lojacono-Pojero 29649, ( P03772068 photo!, image available at: http://mediaphoto.mnhn.fr/media/1441347354235biA985OD3tcLKk51).

Note:—No original material was found in the studied herbaria. Therefore, in accordance with the Art. 9.8 of the ICN, a neotypification would be required. In PAL is housed a specimen (code PAL11874 ) collected in May at Ficarazzi (a village near Palermo) by V. Tineo; no date was reported; it bears the name Andryala tenuifolia , so it was labelled after 1838. PAL11874 consists of a damaged portion of plants with few leaves and capitula that does not allow a clear lecture of the diagnostic characters. Therefore, we prefer to designate as neotype a specimen collected from Ficarazzi by Michele Lojacono-Pojero preserved at P (distributed within his Centuries “Plantae Siculae Rariores”). It is a wellpreserved specimen rich in leaves and capitula. The neotype designated here matches the protologue and corresponds to the current application of the name that is referred to a plant endemic to Sicily, peninsular Italy, Sardinia and Corse (Greuter 2006).