Thermo-mesomediterranean chasmophytic vegetation of limestone crevices of the Northern Adriatic seaboards
Centaureo dalmaticae-Campanulion Horvatić 1934
Centaureo dalmaticae-Campanulion Horvatić 1934
asp13 | Di Pietro & Wagensommer (2008: 194) typified the name Centaureo-Campanulion by selecting the 'Campanulo-Centaureetum dalmaticae Horvatić (1934) 1937' as the typus. This typification is both invalid and illegitimate. It is invalid because there is no unambiguous bibliographical reference to Horvatić (1937) in Di Pietro & Wagensommer's paper (ICPN art. 19a). Even if Di Pietro & Wagensommer (2008) had provided the required reference, the typification would have been illegitimate because the chosen type should have been the Crithmo-Campanuletum dalmaticae Horvatić 1934 and not the later superfluous name Campanulo-Centaureetum dalmaticae (ICPN art. 19a). Because the name Centaureo-Campanulion has still not been effectively typified, we choose here the Crithmo-Centaureetum dalmaticae Horvatić 1934 (protologue of which contains the alliance's name-giving taxon Centaurea dalmatica) as the lectotypus (hoc loco) of the alliance (Horvatić 1934: 192). (R. Di Pietro, J.-P. Theurillat, L. Mucina).