Navarretia minima Nutt. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1848

Navarretia minima Nutt. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 4(1): 13 (1848)

≡ Gilia minima (Nutt.) A.Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 8: 269 (1870) ≡ Navarretia leucocephala Benth. subsp. minima (Nutt.) A.G.Day Novon 3(4): 337 (1993; as to type, but not circumscription). TYPE:—[U.S.A. Washington: Walla Walla County], Plains of the Oregon [Columbia River], near Walla-Walla [Wallula Junction], Nuttall s.n. (lectotype, first step, Day 1993a: Novon 3: 337; lectotype, second step, designated here: BM barcode BM000801499 image!, isolectotypes PH 01076560! [barcode PH 00019022], GH barcode 01565862!).

= Navarretia furnissii L.A.Johnson & L.M.Chan, Phytotaxa 42: 56 (2012). TYPE:— U.S.A. Utah: Summit County, in open, disturbed spaces in a sagebrush framed meadow between Hwy 150 and the Beaver Creek picnic area, ca. 0.2 miles east of mile marker 8, 40.62242° N, 111.14703° W, 2187 m; 7 July 2005, L.A. Johnson & C.L. Johnson 05-197 (holotype BRY barcode BRYV0006175!, isotypes NY barcode 02147669!, RM!, RSA!, UC barcode UC 2072639!).

Notes:—All of Nuttall’s N. minima plants, including that labeled “Rocky Mtns” (BM barcode BM0000801498 image!) are likely from a single collection in the Caribou Mountain Range near the Blackfoot River, Idaho (Table 1). Nevertheless, we formally designate only the specimens that reference the Columbia Plains, in deference to the protologue that is almost certainly in error. Day (1993a) rather than Cronquist (1984) inadvertently provided the first step lectotypification. In the first volume of the Intermountain Flora, Cronquist et al. (1972: 8) state, “When one of several collections cited in the protologue is obviously the primary basis for a name, we have given it as the type, without further comment. Sometimes the typification is less clear and a more cautious statement is necessary. Our citation is not to be taken as the formal selection of a lectotype, except when specifically so indicated.”