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

Abstract

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), has been known as Statice tenoreana since the first half of 19th century. Although this name was published without a diagnosis or description by Gussone, it can be considered as validly published by an indirect reference to a previous work of Tenore (‘Flora Napolitana’). Therefore, the combination 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 collection.