Cynoglossum columnae Biv., Stirp. Rar. Sic.

Cecchi, Lorenzo & Selvi, Federico, 2015, Typification of names in Boraginales described from Sicily, Natural History Sciences 2 (2), pp. 97-99 : 97-98

Cynoglossum columnae Biv., Stirp. Rar. Sic. 2: 7. 1814, nom. illeg. [ Cynoglossum columnae Ten.] Locus classicus: [ Italy] “in �ppenninis Montibus”; [Sicily] “in Monte Cuccio Panormum prope”.

Lectotype (here designated): [ Italy, Sicily] s.d., [Bivona] (“ Cynoglossum columnae nobis. Man. 2 [Bivona’s handwriting] / Habui a Cl. Bivona [Parlatore’s handwriting]”, FI 2584 !).

Note. This name undoubtely refers to the same species described with the same name three years before by Michele Tenore in the prodromus of his Flora Napolitana (see Sabato, 1990: 415; Selvi & Cecchi, 2009). Both protologues cite the plant described by Fabio Colonna in his Ekphrasis (1616) and “ Cynoglossum cristatum var. β ” by Lamarck (1786: 238), which had also been referred to Colonna’s description. Nevertheless, the name published by Bivona is certainly a later, heterotypic synonym of C. columnae Ten., as suggested by the circumstance that the author does not mention Tenore and the label on the specimen was annotated as “ Cynoglossum Columnae nobis. Man[ipulum]. 2” by Bivona himself.