Delphinium pusillum Labill., Icon. Pl. Syr. 4: 5. 1812 [basionym].

DuPasquier, Pierre-Emmanuel, Andro-Durand, Veronique, Batory, Lucas, Wang, Wei & Jabbour, Florian, 2021, Nomenclatural revision of Delphinium subg. Consolida (DC.) Huth (Ranunculaceae), PhytoKeys 180, pp. 81-110 : 81

39. Delphinium pusillum Labill., Icon. Pl. Syr. 4: 5. 1812 [basionym].

≡ Consolida pusilla (Labill.) Schrödinger in Abh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 4(5): 62. 1909. Type: Syria. "Djebel Cher", s.d., leg. J. J. Labillardière s.n. (holotype: FI [FI005591 image!).

= Delphinium pygmaeum Poiret in Lam., Encycl. Suppl. 2: 458. 1812.

≡ Consolida pygmaea (Poiret) Schrödinger in Ann. K. K. Naturhist. Hofmus. 27: 43. 1913. Type: “Syrie”, s.d., leg. J. J. H. Labillardière s.n. (holotype: FI [FI005590 image!]; isotype: P [P04023292!]).

= Delphinium oliganthum Boiss. Fl. Orient. 1: 80. 1867.

≡ Consolida oligantha (Boiss.) Schrödinger in Ann. K. K. Naturhist. Hofmus. 27: 43. 1913.

≡ Consolida tomentosa (Boiss.) Schroed. subsp. oligantha (Boiss.) P.H.Davis in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 26: 175. 1965. Type: Syria. "In agris apris: p. Assy. p Aintab", 27 Jun. 1865, leg. H. C. Haussknecht s.n. (lectotype (first step designated by Chowdhuri et al. 1958, pg. 417, second-step designated here): G [G00788351a image!, not G00788351]; isotypes: G [G00390259 image!, specimen in the middle only], K [K000075574 image!, two specimens annotated as “3”], P [P00198731!, P00550831!, P00198733!, P00198737!]).

Notes.

The holotype of D. pusillum bears a handwritten protologue by Labillardière. Munz (1967a) indicated that he saw an isotype of D. pusillum at K (obviously K000692380), but it is not clear whether this specimen belongs to the type collection or not.

As explained by Chowdhuri et al. (1958), when dealing with D. oliganthum , the Haussknecht’s gathering housed at G and K is a mixed collection of D. hellesponticum and D. oliganthum . In the Boissier herbarium, the folder of D. oliganthum contains two sheets, one with D. hellesponticum (G00788351), which bears the original label, and the other one with D. oliganthum (G00788351a), both annotated in 1956 by M. Hossain, one of the co-authors with P. K. Chowdhuri and P. H. Davis. At G, K and P duplicates also contain both species. We complete the first step of lectotypification by Chowdhuri et al. (1958), who indicated G and K simultaneously in designating the specimen on the sheet G00788351a at G-BOIS as the second-step lectotype.