Antirrhinum valentinum Font Quer (1926: 5

Ferrer-Gallego, P. Pablo, Fabado, Javier & Güemes, Jaime, 2021, Typification of seven names in the genus Antirrhinum (tribe Antirrhineae, Plantaginaceae), Phytotaxa 511 (3), pp. 211-230 : 223-226

Antirrhinum valentinum Font Quer (1926: 5 , tab. II)

Type (lectotype [first-step], designated by Rothmaler (1956: 57)):— [ SPAIN]: Valencia; Mt. Monduber, supra Gandia , 600 m, 7 June 1923 Font Quer 81 (BC) .

Type (lectotype [second-step], designated here):—(BC82525, isolectotypes BC82524, BC82587, BC862362 , BCN3499, B 10 0296110, BM000613005, GH00077919, K000806733, MPU694441, S10-19891). Fig. 10 .

Font Quer (1926: 5) described Antirrhinum valentinum providing a description and two geographical localities and gatherings “Hab. in fissuris rupium calcarearum montibus supra Xeresa, ad 200 m. alt., et in latere occidentale montis Monduber, ca. 600 m. (Regno Valentino), ubi majo mense 1923, legi”. The protologue also provided an excellent illustration ( Font Quer 1926: tab. 2) that can be considered original material.

Rothmaler (1956: 57) indicated: “ Typus: Valentia, Mt. Monduber pr. Jativa, 600 m (Font Quer, BC)”. Later, Sutton (1988: 75) mentioned: “ Type: SPAIN: Valencia; Mt. Mondúber, supra Gandia, 600 m, 7 vi 1923 Font Quer 81 (syn. BC, isosyn. BM! JE! K!)”. Effectively, in the herbarium BC, of the Institut Botànic de Barcelona, there are material from the gathering collected in “Mondúber, ad 600 m alt.” in 7 June 1923 by Font Quer. Concretely, there are four specimens at BC belonging to this gathering, with barcodes BC82524, BC82525, BC82587 and BC862362 . These four specimens contain the same print label: “Institutus Botanicus Barcinonensis / Flora Iberica Selecta / Cent. I Dec. 1934 / 81. Antirrhinum valentinum Font Quer / Illustr. Fl. Occid., I, 1, p. 5, t. II (1926). / Valentia: in fissuris rupium calcarearum montis Mondúber, supra / Gandia, ad 600 m alt. Cotypus. / Leg. Font Quer, 7 junii 1923”.

On the other hand, among the original material, we have located other specimens that belong to the gatherings mentioned in the protologue, and therefore syntypes.The sheets with barcodes B 10 0296110, BCN3499, BM000613005, GH00077919, K000806733, MPU694441, S10-19891 contain specimens belonging to the gathering collected in “Mondúber” in 7 June 1923, and the sheet with barcode SANT7186 bears a specimen labelled “pr. Xeresa (Regno Valentino) / in rupestribus ad. 150 m. alt. / F. Q., 28 majii 1923”, the other gathering cited in the protologue from “Xeresa” on 28 May 1923, the date mentioned in the protologue by Font Quer “ubi majo mense 1923”.

The Rothmaler’s designation should be regarded as a valid type designation, specifically a lectotype (ICN Art. 9.3). However, this designation is narrowed to a single specimen by a second-step lectotypification according to Art. 9.17 to the ICN. The specimen designated as the lectotype of the name Antirrhinum valentinum is the most complete and informative material from the four specimens that make up the gathering cited by Rothmaler (and also by Sutton as “ syntypi ”), with barcode BC82525 ( Fig. 10 ).

Finally, regarding to the term “cotypus” indicated by Font Quer in the labels of these specimens, this term is not defined in the ICN ( Turland et al. 2018), and it has not an official status. A “cotype” [incl. clastotype (see Swingle 1912)] is a fragment or duplicate specimen of the type [i.e. isotype, isolectotype, isoneotype or isoepitype according to Art. 9.4 footnote of the ICN]. However, the inclusion of the term “cotypus” by the author in the labels allows to treat them as duplicate specimens according to ICN Art. 8.3 footnote.

Figures

FIGURE 10. Lectotype (second-step) of Antirrhinum valentinum Font Quer, BC (barcode BC82525). Image by courtesy of the herbarium BC, reproduced with permission.