Galium elongatum C.Presl, Delic.

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 : 76

Galium elongatum C.Presl, Delic. Prag.: 119(–120). 1822. [July 1822]

≡ Galium palustre L. var. elongatum (C.Presl) Rchb.f., Icon. Fl. Germ. Helv. 17: 95. 1854–1855. [1855 publ. 1854–1855] ≡ * Galium palustre L. subsp. elongatum (C.Presl) Arcang., Comp. Fl. Ital. : 312.1882. [January–April 1882]

Ind. Loc.:—“Hab. in humidis ad rivulos Panormi Siciliae” [after typification]. SIC

Type (lectotype designated by Ehrendorfer & Schonbeck-Temesy in Davis 1982: 784):— ITALY. in humidis ad rivulos Panormi Siciliae , s.d., C . Presl s.n. ( PR) .

Note:—Most floras admit the name Galium palustre L. subsp. elongatum (C.Presl) Lange, Fl. Dan. [Oeder] 16(47): 4. 1869. [after 20 March 1869]. However, the asterisk used to denotes the rank by Lange cannot be interpreted as a subspecies. At pag. 4 of “Flora Danica” 16(46), 1867, concerning Scirpus rufus * bifolius , it is stated that “ forsan non nisi hujus subspecies habenda erit ” [“maybe it could represent a subspecies”]. In other words, this name is accepted to a rank different from subspecies. Indeed, at pag. 5 of “Flora Danica” 16(48), 1871, Plantago ( major ) * intermedia is reported, with a reference to the previously published P. major * intermedia , appearing at pag. 120 of the “Haandbog i den danske flora” third edition, in 1864. At pag. XVIII of the same flora, the author states that asterisks denote “ Udmaerkede Varieteter ” [“excellent varieties”].

Compiled by:— G. Domina