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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-05-26
Page range: 228-232
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Typification of the name Sedum monregalense (Crassulaceae) with notes on the correct publication date

Strada Val San Martino sup. 194, 10131, Torino, Italy
Crassulaceae Sedum monregalense Eudicots

Abstract

Sedum monregalense (Balbis, 1804: 339) is a well-known French-Italian endemic mountain taxon (Jalas et al. 1999: 104), described from plants collected in Piedmont (NW Italy) by I. Molineri (gardener at the Botanical Garden of Turin). However, a specimen of this taxon was already present in the herbarium of C. Allioni (1728–1804) stored at TO; the label reports the polynomial “Sedum montanum, tetraphyllum, floribus albis, foliis planis”. This name had been used by Tilli (1723: 157) and Micheli (1748: 88) who discovered this taxon in the Apennines (C Italy); however, Tilli (op.cit.) cited an earlier manuscript by Micheli named: “Catalogus Plantarum Agri Florentini” (cf. Parlatore 1844: 46). At last, it was already present in the Herbarium of U. Aldrovandi (1502–1605) (SMA Bologna 2017), there named “Sedum sive Sempervivum flore albo calice herbaceo sexaphyllo”.