Veronica galactites Hance

Veronica galactites Hance View in CoL

Annales des sciences naturelles, Botanique, ser. 5, 5: 232 ( Hance 1866). — Pseudolysimachion galactites (Hance) Holub in Holub & Pouzar in Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxa 2: 424 ( Holub & Pouzar 1967).

TYPE CITATION. — China, Guangdong: “In devexis graminosis collium calcareorum in districtu Yingtak, secus amnem North River [Bei River], 150 m. p. boream versus ab urbe Cantone, copiose crescentem, d. 20 julii 1864 invenit T. Sampson (Herb. Propr., n. 11320)”.

TYPE MATERIAL. — K[ K001070344* ], P[ P04077706* , P04077810* ] .

Nomenclatural note. Three specimens of V. galactites have been found, all with the same label of the Herbarium Hance, the collaborator of Sampson and author of the name. Two specimens are in P, one in K. All conform to the description, although the specimen in Kew seems damaged. In the absence of a thorough search of the herbaria BM (and CN, E, FI, MO, NY, PH) we abstain from designation of a lectotype. The specimens in K and P confirm the synonymization with V. linariifolia , although one should bear in mind that the species was not monophyletic in the DNA-based analysis of Kosachev et al. (2016) and a revision of the species across its range is necessary, including the southernmost occurrences, from which V. galactites has been described.