Nomenclatural and distributional remarks on Limonium tenoreanum (Plumbaginaceae), a narrow endemic of southern Italy

20 February 2017

Iamonico, Duilio; Vallariello, Roberta; Del Guacchio, Emanuele

A rare Limonium species, which is strictly endemic to a short stretch of the coast of the Sorrento peninsula (Gulf of Naples, Campania region, southern Italy), was known as Statice tenoreana (published by Gussone) since the first half of XIX century. Although this Gussone’s name was published without a diagnosis or description, according to the Art. 38.14 of ICN it can be considered as validly published by an indirect reference to a previous Tenore’s work (Flora Napolitana). Therefore, the combination in Limonium proposed more than a century later by Pignatti is correct. The name is lectotypified here by a specimen preserved at NAP in the Tenore’s collection.

10.1111/njb.01313