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Triticum durum Desfontaines 1798

  • 1. Servicio de Vida Silvestre y Red Natura 2000, Centro para la Investigación y Experimentación Forestal (CIEF), Generalitat Valenciana, Avda. Comarques del País Valencià 114, 46930 Quart de Poblet, Valencia, Spain. & Bodega Ferrer-Gallego, 46311 Jaraguas, Valencia, Spain. & flora. cief @ gva. es; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7595 - 9302
  • 2. Servicio de Vida Silvestre y Red Natura 2000, Centro para la Investigación y Experimentación Forestal (CIEF), Generalitat Valenciana, Avda. Comarques del País Valencià 114, 46930 Quart de Poblet, Valencia, Spain. & laguna _ emi @ gva. es; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9674 - 2767
  • 3. Universidad Miguel Hernández, Escuela Politécnica Superior de Orihuela, Departamento De Biología Aplicada, Ctra. Beniel, Km 3,2, 03312 Orihuela, Alicante, Spain. & cobon @ umh. es; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0244 - 601 X
  • 4. Departamento Biología Vegetal, Facultad Biología, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain. & falcaraz @ um. es; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3254 - 2691
  • 5. Departamento Biología Vegetal, Facultad Biología, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain. & drivera @ um. es; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6889 - 714 X

Description

Triticum durum Desfontaines (1798: 114)

Triticum turgidum subsp. durum (Desf.) Husnot (1899: 80)

Gigachilon polonicum subsp. durum (Desf.) Löve (1984: 497)

Triticum turgidum var. durum (Desf.) Yan ex Kuo (1987: 48)

Triticum turgidum subsp. durum (Desf.) Van Slageren (1994: 91), comb. superf.

Type (lectotype designated here):—[MOROCCO]. Barbaria, s.d., R.L. Desfontaines s.n (P, 2-D code P00662178) (Fig. 1).

The protologue of Triticum durum, published by Desfontaines (1798: 114), includes the name TRITICUM DURUM followed by a short diagnosis “ TRITICUM culmo farcto; glumis pubescentibus, aristatis; spiculis quadrifloris”, a complete description of this species in Latin, and a geographical provenance of this species “COLITUR in Barbaria”. No illustrations were included in the protologue.

René Louiche Desfontaines (1750–1833) was a French botanist, professor at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, France. His personal herbarium is now preserved at Herbs. BM, C, CGE, FI (acquired via Webb), LIV, MPU, and P (including PC, P–DESF, P–JU, and P–LA) (Stafleu & Cowan 1976: 627–628).

We have found only a relevant herbarium sheet at Herb. P, with 2-D code P00662178, which contains original material of T. durum. The sheet bears two culms with leaves and inflorescences, and four labels. A label is annotated as “Herbier de la Flore Atlantique / donné au Muséum, par M. Desfontaines. / Nº. / Triticum durum ”, and two labels are handwritten by Desfontaines, both with detailed descriptions of the plant, and the annotation “Colitur in Barbaria” (image available at https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/p/item/p00662178). A fourth handwritten label indicated that this specimen was considered as “ Holotype ” by “G.A. & O.D.” in 2009, but this cannot be considered an effective typification since it was not published.

We have not found any other original specimen in any of the consulted herbaria (i.e., BM, C, FI, G, MPU, P), and most likely the specimen at Herb. P is the only original material used by Desfontaines in the description of this name. However, as we cannot exclude that there were more than one specimen of this taxon, we thus consider the specimen as the lectotype of the name T. durum. This specimen at Herb. P is consistent with the traditional concept and current use of the name (see e.g., Humphries 1980, Tan 1985, Morrison 2007).

Notes

Published as part of Ferrer-Gallego, P. Pablo, Laguna, Emilio, Obón, Concepción, Alcaraz, Francisco & Rivera, Diego, 2022, On the nomenclatural type of Triticum durum (Poaceae: Triticeae), pp. 103-108 in Phytotaxa 555 (1) on page 105, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.555.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/6875779

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
P
Material sample ID
P00662178
Scientific name authorship
Desfontaines
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Triticum
Species
durum
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Triticum durum Desfontaines, 1798 sec. Ferrer-Gallego, Laguna, Obón, Alcaraz & Rivera, 2022

References

  • Desfontaines, R. L. (1798) Flora atlantica, sive historia plantarum quae in Atlante, agro tunetano et algeriensi crescunt, vol. 1. Typis C. Panckoucke, Parisiis [Paris], 444 pp. + 117 tab. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 323
  • Husnot, P. - T. (1899) Graminees. Descriptions, figures et usages des graminees spontanees et cultivees de France, Belgique, iles Britanniques, Suisse. A Cahan, par Athis (Orne), 92 pp.
  • Love, A. (1984) Conspectus of the Triticeae. Feddes Repertorium 95 (7 - 8): 425 - 521.
  • Kuo, P. C. (1987) Triticum turgidum var. durum. In: Kuo, P. C. (ed.) Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, vol. 9 (3). Science Press, Beijing, pp. 48.
  • Van Slageren, M. W. (1994) Wild wheats: A monograph of Aegilops L. and Amblyopyrum (Jaub. et Spach) Eig (Poaceae). Joint publication of ICARDA (International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas), Aleppo, Syria and Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands, 512 pp.
  • Stafleu, F. A. & Cowan, R. S. (1976) Taxonomic literature, Vol. 1. Ed. 2. Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, Utrecht, 1136 pp. https: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 48631
  • Humphries, C. J. (1980) Triticum L. 202 - 203. In: Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. & Webb, B. A. (eds.) Flora Europaea, Vol. 5. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 202 - 203.
  • Tan, K. (1985) Triticum. In: Davis, P. H. (ed.) Flora of Turkey. Vol. 9. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 245 - 255.
  • Morrison, L. A. (2007) Triticum L. In: Barkworth, M. E., Capels, K. M., Long, S., Anderton, L. K. & Piep, M. B. (eds.) Flora of North America, north of Mexico. Vol. 24. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, pp. 268 - 277.