TAILIEUCHUNG - The original material of two Turkish species of Erica (Ericaceae) described and named by Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761-1829)

The holotype of Erica spiculifolia Salisb., annotated by Salisbury, has been traced in The Natural History Museum, London. No holotype of E. manipuliflora Salisb. has been located, and so a neotype, one of John Sibthorp’s specimens, has been designated in The Natural History Museum, London. | Turk J Bot 31 (2007) 463-466 © TÜB‹TAK Research Note The Original Material of Two Turkish Species of Erica (Ericaceae) Described and Named by Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761-1829) E. Charles NELSON* Registrar, The Heather Society, c/o Tippitiwitchet Cottage, Hall Road, Outwell, Wisbech, PE14 8PE, Cambridgeshire, UK. Received: Accepted: Abstract: The holotype of Erica spiculifolia Salisb., annotated by Salisbury, has been traced in The Natural History Museum, London. No holotype of E. manipuliflora Salisb. has been located, and so a neotype, one of John Sibthorp’s specimens, has been designated in The Natural History Museum, London. Key Words: Richard Salisbury, John Sibthorp, Ericaceae, Erica, Flora graeca, Turkey, holotypes, isotypes Introduction Erica spiculifolia Salisb. and E. manipuliflora Salisb. both occur in Turkey. Until the late 1990s, E. spiculifolia was separated from the other northern hemisphere species of Erica L. and comprised the monotypic genus Bruckenthalia Reichb. (as B. spiculifolia (Salisb.) Reichb.; Stevens, 1978). However, following detailed studies of African genera of the subfamily Ericoideae (including Erica), as well as the European genera Bruckenthalia, Calluna Salisb., and Daboecia , Oliver (1989, 1996, 2000) argued that Bruckenthalia did not merit retention as a separate genus and so he reduced it to synonymy under Erica. Molecular studies (Kron et al., 2002) and DNA sequence data (McGuire & Kron, 2005) support Oliver’s thesis that B. spiculifolia should be included in Erica. These species were among the plants collected and preserved by John Sibthorp (1758-1796) while travelling in the Aegean region during the late eighteenth century (for details of Sibthorp’s travels see Lack & Mabberley, 1995). Among Sibthorp’s companions on his journey between May 1786 and March 1787 was the botanical artist Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826), and Bauer drew and later painted these Erica species for the fourth volume of .

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• Richard Salisbury
• John Sibthorp
• Flora graeca
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• manipuliflora Salisb
• Pallas’s specimen