Echinops lalesarensis Bornm.

Echinops lalesarensis Bornm. (Fig. 3) Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 36 (2): 202 (1918). Echinops villosissimus Bunge [var.] ss. lalesarensis Bornm., nom. nud. in sched., Bornmüller: Iter Persico-Turcicum 1892-93, No. 4055. Echinops lalesarensis var. adenocaulis Bornm., Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 36 (2): 203 (Bornmüller 1918). — Lectotype (here designated): Iran. Kerman Province, in regione inferior montis Kuh Lalesar prope pagum Lalesar, c. 3000 m, VII.1892, J. F. N. Bornmüller 4055 p.p. (lecto-, B[B100093502]!; isolecto-, K[K000768897]! right hand of the sheet). LECTOTYPE (here designated). — Iran. Kerman Province, in regione inferiore montis Kuh Lalesar prope pagum Lalesar, c. 3000 m, 15.VII.1892, J. F. N . Bornmüller 4055 (lecto-, B [B100093507]!; isolecto-, B [B100093503, B100093504, B100093505, B100093506]!, BR [BR0000005267729]!, G [G00223636, G00223637]!, JE [JE00008414, JE00008415]!, K [K000768896]! left hand of the sheet, LD [LD1044387]!, W [W0045820, W0045839, W18960003994]!). REMARKS Bornmüller first supposed this species to be a variety of E. villosissimus but later described it as species. Bornmüller (1918) described Echinops lalesarensis based on collections of him from Lalesar, but did not designate a holotype nor did mention the name of the herbarium where the specimens were housed. Subsequently, fifteen specimens of E. lalesarensis collected by Bornmüller from Lalesar were found at different herbaria. Of these, the specimen B100093507 is better preserved and more complete than the other specimens and best represents the species description given in the protologue, hence it is designated here as the lectotype. Echinops lalesarensis var. adenocaulis was described by Bornmüller (1918). According to him, it is distinguished from the typical variety by having glandular indumentum on stem. In their account, Montazerolghaem et al. (2016), considering morphological data, placed var. adenocaulis to synonymy of E. lalesarensis. Montazerolghaem et al. ’s treatment is followed here. Anyway a lectotype for this taxon is chosen here too.Published as part of Negaresh, Kazem, 2022, Lectotypification of four Iranian endemic taxa of Echinops L. (Asteraceae, Cardueae), pp. 49-55 in Adansonia (3) (3) 44 (7) on page 54, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2022v44a7, http://zenodo.org/record/632291