Discovery of the type collection of Arabis nuda Bél. (Brassicaceae)

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Endress (Institute of Systematic Botany, Zürich) P. Feldmann (Cirad, Montpellier) L. Gautier (Conservatoire et Jardins botaniques de la Ville de Genève) F. Ghahremaninejad (Kharazmi University, Téhéran) K. Iwatsuki (Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo) K. Kubitzki (Institut für Allgemeine Botanik, Hamburg) J.-Y. Lesouef (Conservatoire botanique de Brest) P. Morat (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris) J. Munzinger (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier) S. E. Rakotoarisoa (Millenium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Madagascar Conservation Centre, Antananarivo) É. A. Rakotobe (Centre d’Applications des Recherches pharmaceutiques, Antananarivo) P. H. Raven (Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis) G. Tohmé (Conseil national de la Recherche scientifique Liban, Beyrouth) J. G. West (Australian National Herbarium, Canberra) J. R. Wood (Oxford) couverture / covEr : Image of the original illustration of Arabis nuda Bél. Adansonia est indexé dans / Adansonia is indexed in: – Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch®) – ISI Alerting Services® – Current Contents® / Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences® – Scopus® Adansonia est distribué en version électronique par / Adansonia is distributed electronically by: – BioOne® (http://www.bioone.org) 97 ADANSONIA, sér. 3 • 2019 • 41 (11) © Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. www.adansonia.com KEY WORDS Arabis, Brassicaceae Cruciferae, Draba, Drabopsis, lectotypification. MOTS CLÉS Arabis, Brassicaceae Cruciferae, Draba, Drabopsis, lectotypification. Al-Shehbaz I. A. 2019. — Discovery of the type collection of Arabis nuda Bél. (Brassicaceae). Adansonia, sér. 3, 41 (11): 97-100. https://doi.org/10.5252/adansonia2019v41a11. http://adansonia.com/41/11 ABSTRACT Arabis nuda Bél., known for more than 160 years as Drabopsis verna K.Koch and more recently as Draba nuda (Bél.) Al-Shehbaz & M.Koch, was based on an illustration unaccompanied by a text and until now has been assumed to be the type, though the name has never been typified. The discovery of a specimen in the herbarium of Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (P05413412), on which that original illustration was based, led to designating that specimen herein as the lectotype. RÉSUMÉ Découverte du spécimen type d’Arabis nuda Bél. (Brassicaceae). Arabis nuda Bél., connue depuis plus de 160 ans en tant que Drabopsis verna K.Koch, et plus récemment comme Draba nuda (Bél.) Al-Shehbaz & M.Koch, était basée sur une illustration qui n’était pas accompagnée d’un texte et qui faisait office, jusqu’à maintenant, de type pour cette espèce, bien que le nom n’ait jamais été typifié. La découverte, dans l’herbier du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle de Paris, du spécimen (P05413412) sur lequel l’illustration originale été basée, nous amène ici à désigner ce spécimen comme lectotype. Ihsan A. AL-SHEHBAZ Missouri Botanical Garden 4344 Shaw Boulevard St. Louis, MO 63110 (United States) [email protected]g Submitted on 30 November 2018 | accepted on 4 February 2019 | published on 27 August 2019 Discovery of the type collection of Arabis nuda Bél. (Brassicaceae) 98 ADANSONIA, sér. 3 • 2019 • 41 (11) Al-Shehbaz I. A. Bélanger (1834) illustrated Arabis nuda Bél. based on material that he collected from “Perse” (Iran). His publication included 15 unnumbered plates that were unaccompanied by text. Many authors (e.g., Cullen 1965; Hedge 1968; Jafri 1973; Gustavsson 1977; Naqshi & Javeid 1984) believed that A. nuda was invalidly published and that Boissier (1842: 54) validated the name a year after Koch (1841) described the species as Drabopsis verna K.Koch. However, Schulz (1936) and Botschantzev (1963) recognized A. nuda as validly published and treated the species as D. nuda. Their action is currently in full agreement with Article 38.8 of the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants (Turland et al. 2018), because the illustration (Fig. 1) had some details of the plant, including a basal leaf, dehisced fruit, seed, and trichomes. Léonard (1977), who reproduced that illustration, did not lectotypify the basionym A. nuda, and subsequent botanists failed to do that as well. Despite the placement of this species in several genera (e.g., Arabidopsis Heynh., Arabis L., Sisymbrium L., Stenophragma Čelak.), it remained widely accepted in Drabopsis for over 160 years. More recently, it was transferred to Draba L. by Al-Shehbaz & Koch (2003) based on preliminary molecular data, a placement that was later confirmed by Jordon-Thaden et al. (2010). Earlier workers, including Al-Shehbaz & Koch (2003) and Al-Shehbaz (2015), recognized the original plate in Bélanger (1834) as the type of Arabis nuda, but their listing did not represent an effective typification of the name because it was post 2001 (see McNeill 2014; Turland et al. 2018: Article 9.23). However, no previous botanists have critically searched for authentic material in the herbaria of Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (P) or the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève (G) until the author had an opportunity to check the bulk of Brassicaceae in both herbaria in 2015-2017. As a result, one sheet, P05413412 (Fig. 2), was discovered, and it has ten plants among which the one in the middle of the upper row matches very well the original illustration in Bélanger (1834), and the sheet is accompanied by pencil drawings of seeds and dehisced fruit that perfectly resemble those in the published illustration. This sheet carries a single label, and there are no indications that it carries plants from different localities. Therefore, it is designated here as the lectotype. Arabis nuda Bél. In Voyage aux Indes-Orientales, Botanique, t. [15]A (1834). — Draba nuda (Bél.) Al-Shehbaz & M.Koch, Novon 13: 173 (2003). — Type: Perse [Iran], entre Sichmetaeh et Seidakud, 1825, C. P. Bélanger s.n. (lecto-, P[P05413412]! here designated; possible isolecto-, G00446345!). fig. 1. — Image of the original illustration of Arabis nuda Bél. 99 Discovery of the type collection of Arabis nuda Bél. (Brassicaceae) ADANSONIA, sér. 3 • 2019 • 41 (11) fig. 2. — Lectotype of Arabis nuda Bél. (P05413412). 100 ADANSONIA, sér. 3 • 2019 • 41 (11) Al-Shehbaz I. A. RemaRk The G sheet, collected from Iran in 1825, may well be an isolectotype, although no locality information is indicated. Acknowledgements I am profoundly grateful to Pete Lowry for his editorial advice. I am also thankful to him, Germinal Rouhan, and Peter B. 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