NOMENCLATURAL TYPES OF THE TAXA NAMED AFTER N. I. VAVILOV IN THE HERBARIUM COLLECTION OF VIR (WIR)

Abstract

Carl Linnaeus believed, even in his time, that names of eminent scientists may serve as a good source to generate plant names. In 2017, the 130th birthday anniversary of Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, an outstanding biologist of the twentieth century, was celebrated. The magnitude of his personality and his tremendous contribution to the knowledge of the world’s diversity of cultivated plants and their wild relatives compelled many taxonomists to use Vavilov’s name while naming new plant taxa. All in all, 28 botanical taxa with Vavilov’s name have been made public: one genus and 27 species, including intraspecific taxa. One third of them are taxa within the genus Triticum L. (one species, one subspecies, and seven varieties). Nomenclatural types of seven taxa are preserved in VIR’s herbarium (WIR). These are represented by holotypes and mesotypes: Aegilops crassa subsp. vavilovii Zhuk. (≡ A. vavilovii (Zhuk.) Chennav.) and Triticum spelta subsp. kuckuckianum var. vavilovii Dorof.; lectotypes and isolectotypes: Avena strigosa subsp. vaviloviana Malz. (≡ A. vaviloviana (Malz.) Mordv.) and Solanum vavilovii Juz. et Buk.; and neotypes: Triticum aestivum var. vavilovianum Jakubz., T. dicoccoides var. vavilovii Jakubz., and T. vulgare var. vavilovii Thum. (≡ T. vavilovii (Thum.) Jakubz.).