2026/02/02 by Francesca Manconi, Lorenzo Peruzzi · 1 voice · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies #Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna #Plant Diversity and Evolution
paper · doi:10.3897/phytokeys.270.174954
openalex publication_date 2026/02/02 · openalex created_date 2026/02/03 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
Polygala nicaeensis is a circum-Mediterranean species with uncertain infraspecific taxonomy, currently split into eight subspecies. As a first step of an ongoing taxonomic and systematic study, we have identified and studied 29 nomenclatural types (of which 23 lectotypes and one second-step neotype are designated here), to fix the application of all the names connected to this species. We also re-defined the year, place and authorship of first publication of P. nicaeensis itself, whose correct name is P. nicaeensis Risso ex Bray. Based on the types studied here, the currently widely-accepted P. nicaeensis subsp. mediterranea Chodat, widespread in the Mediterranean, becomes a heterotypic synonym of P. nicaeensis s.str. Finally, P. nicaeensis subsp. corsica and P. pedemontana E.P.Perrier & B.Verl. are confirmed as heterotypic synonyms, that apply to a species occurring in Corsica and Western Alps, whose correct priority name is P. corsica Boreau.