Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 91. (Budapest 1999)

Kováts, D.: Plant types of Sándor Jávorka in the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest II

ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Volume 91. Budapest, 1999 pp. 45-60. Plant types of Sándor Jávorka in the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest II. D. KOVÁTS Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum H1087 Budapest, Könyves Kálmán krt. 40, Hungary e-mail: dezso@bot.nhmus.hu KOVÁTS, D. (1999): Plant types of Sándor Jávorka in the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest (BP) II. - Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 91: 45-60. Abstract - 27 types from 17 taxa of SÁNDOR JÁVORKA, i. e. 2 holotypes, 5 isotypes, 10 lectotypes, 6 isolectotypes and 4 neotypes are elaborated, which are deposited in the Herbarium Carpato-Pannonicum, Herbarium Kitaibelianum and in the Herbarium Generale in the Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest (BP). With 11 figures. INTRODUCTION The Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum houses two big herbaria of flowering plants. One is the Herbarium Carpato-Pannonicum (more than 600 thousand sheets) comprising flowering plants from the Carpato-Pannonian area. The other one is the Herbarium Generale (more than 700 thousand sheets) consist of flowering plants from the whole world. So in the Botanical Department we have more than 1 million and 300 thousand sheets. These herbaria are the biggest in Hungary and important in Europe as well. Most of the original and type materials of the Hungarian botanists may be found in these herbaria, but the majority of the types were not designated. Research work, elaborations and publications of types started 24 years ago (KOVÁTS 1975) in the Herbarium Carpato-Pannonicum and continued with interruptions until now (KOVÁTS 1982, 1984, 1992, 1998). The knowledge of original and type materials is very important especially today when the taxonomical elaborations and revisions are booming again. So it is much welcome and useful thing that an other colleague from the staff joined in this work and started to elaborate the types in our herbaria (SOMLYAY 1997, 1998). In this paper the author continues to discuss the type specimens of SÁNDOR JÁVORKA which are deposited in the Herbarium Carpato-Pannonicum and in the Herbarium Generale in the Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest (KOVÁTS 1998). This paper enumerates 27 types of 17 taxa, namely 8 species, 4 subspecies, 3 varietas, 2 forma. This material includes 2 holotypes, 5 isotypes, 10 lectotypes, 6 isolectotypes (syntypes), 4 neotypes of JÁVORKA. He described those taxa alone, or in