Convolvulus imperati Vahl, Symb. Bot.

Peruzzi, Lorenzo, Galasso, Gabriele, Domina, Gianniantonio, Bartolucci, Fabrizio, Santangelo, Annalisa, Alessandrini, Alessandro, Astuti, Giovanni, D’Antraccoli, Marco, Roma-Marzio, Francesco, Ardenghi, Nicola M. G., Barberis, Giuseppina, Conti, Fabio, Bernardo, Liliana, Peccenini, Simonetta, Stinca, Adriano, Wagensommer, Robert P., Bonari, Gianmaria, Iamonico, Duilio, Iberite, Mauro, Viciani, Daniele, Guacchio, Emanuele Del, Galdo, Gianpietro Giusso Del, Lastrucci, Lorenzo, Villani, Mariacristina, Brunu, Antonello, Magrini, Sara, Pistarino, Annalaura, Brullo, Salvatore & Salmeri, Cristina, 2019, An inventory of the names of native, non-endemic vascular plants described from Italy, their loci classici and types, Phytotaxa 410 (1), pp. 1-215 : 92

Convolvulus imperati Vahl, Symb. Bot. 1: 17(–18). 1790. [August–October 1790]

≡ * Ipomoea imperati (Vahl) Griseb., Cat. Pl. Cub. : 203. 1866. [May–August 1866]

Ind. Loc.:—“ad littora maris Neapoli” [after typification]. CAM

Type (lectotype designated by La Valva & Sabato 1983: 114):— ITALY. “Convolvolo marino, Herba lattifera, congenere alla Soldanella Imperato” in Imperato, Hist. Nat.: 754, 767. 1599; ed. 2, 671. 1672 [icon].

Note:—The specific epithet, published as “imperati ”, commemorates Ferrante Imperato, who have a wellestablished latinized form, Ferrandus Imperatus. According to Art. 60.8 of the ICN, it is not to be corrected in “ imperatoi ” ( La Valva & Sabato, 1983). According to the latter authors, the names Convolvulus stolonifer Cyr. and Ipomoea stolonifera J.F.Gmel. are illegitimate.

Compiled by:— R. Marcucci