Cerastium speciosum var. adenophorum Halácsy, Consp. Fl. Graec.

Reich, Dieter, Gutermann, Walter, Bardy, Katharina, Rainer, Heimo, Raus, Thomas, Sonnleitner, Michaela, Tan, Kit & Lachmayer, Margarita, 2021, The type specimens in Eugen von Halácsy´s Herbarium Graecum, Phytotaxa 493 (1), pp. 1-156 : 58-59

Cerastium speciosum var. adenophorum Halácsy, Consp. Fl. Graec. 1 (1): 221. 1900.

Current name: Cerastium banaticum subsp. speciosum

Syntype:—[ Greece] In monte Korax Aetoliae adjectae. In regione alpina, ad summum cacumen usque, alt. 6000’– 7680’. rar: 23 July 1879, T. H. H . von Heldreich s.n. ( WU 0074239 ), possible type for Cerastium grandiflorum var. speciosum Boiss. (quod vide in Catalogue A) .

Halácsy (1900a) included the name Cerastium grandiflorum var. alpinum Boiss. (Fl. orient. 1: 728. 1867) cited as synonym, which is an illegitimate name change of C. arvense var. alpicolum Fenzl ex Griseb. (Spic. fl. rumel. 1: 210. 1843). In the protologue Halácsy (1900a) most likely erroneously mixed a gathering by Heldreich from Olympus and one by Tuntas from Korax Aetoliae, as the above cited Heldreich voucher from Mt. Korax has a handwritten note by Halácsy on the label reading “adenophorum”.

The voucher bears two labels, one was mounted on the sheet providing the above cited information, and one was only enclosed but not attached giving Mt. Veluchi (Tymphresti Veterum) as locality, 30 July 1857 as date and Samaritani & Guicciardi as collectors. However, all three flowering specimens on the voucher show glandular pedicels, the character given for var. adenophorum (Halácsy 1900) and thus most likely belong to Heldreich´s gathering, the origin of the vegetative individual remains unclear.