Gypsophila boissieri Vis.

Clementi, Moreno, Vukojičić, Snežana, Miola, Antonella & Niketić, Marjan, 2016, Typification and nomenclature of the names published in Plantae Serbicae Rariores aut Novae-Decas III, Phytotaxa 252 (2), pp. 85-98 : 95

Gypsophila boissieri Vis. in Visiani & Pančić (1870: 16)

Note:—When Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810–1886) moved Heterochroa spergulifolia Jaubert & Spach (1842: 28) to the genus Gypsophila Linnaeus (1753: 406) , he created the illegitimate combination G. spergulifolia (Jaubert & Spach) Boissier (1867: 559) , a later homonym of G. spergulifolia Grisebach (1843: 183) . Visiani alone (on Pančić’ s suggestion, as we learn from a letter dated 8 April 1869) proposed this name as a replacement, in a note in Visiani & Pančić (1870). Boissier himself later recognised his error and, unaware of Visiani’s work, published the superfluous new name G. jaubertiana ( Boissier 1888: 89) . Boissier’s name was long accepted as correct, while it appears that Visiani’s was entirely neglected (e.g. see Stroh 1939: 467); G. boissieri is, nonetheless, the correct name of H. spergulifolia when treated in the genus Gypsophila . This species is now generally treated under Bolanthus , as B. spergulifolius (Jaubert & Spach) Huber-Morath in Huber-Morath et al. (1967: 23) (e.g. Euro+Med 2015).