G. Fekete szerk.: Studia Botanica Hungarica 10. 1975 (Budapest, 1975)

Kováts, Dezső: Boraginaceae type specimens of Herbarium Carpato-Pannonicum

Studia Bot. Hung. X. 1975. Boraginaceae type specimens of Herbarium Carpato-Pannonicum Dezső KOVÁTS Botanical Department, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest ABSTRACT: (Boraginaceae type specimens of the Herbarium CarpatoPannonicum) - The author discusses the type specimens of Bora ginaceae wich are to be found in the Herbarium Carpato-Pannonicum of the Botanical Department, Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest even in the most valuable part of it, at the Herbarium Kitaibelianum. At present, an increasing amount of experts carry out electronic data processing of herbaria, conferences are kept, and special systems worked out to facilitate, and quicken the availability and elaboration of the extremely swollen informative data. The informative data of type specimens are most important for taxonomists and evolution researchers. The collections of the Botanical Department of the Natural History Museum are the most outstanding and complete in Hungary, and significant even in Europe (c. f. SZUJKÓ-LACZA 1973, 1973). One of the collections is the Herbarium Carpato-Pannonicum, containing the flora of the Carpathian Basin, and a part of it - among others - is the Herbarium Kitaibelianum, of great scientific and historical value (c. f. FEKETE - KOVÁTS 1971, 1974). In this latter, the type specimens of PAUL KITAIBEL, "the hungarian LINNÉ", can be found (WALDS TE IN et KITAIBEL 1802, 1805, 1809, 1812; KITAIBEL 1814, 1828, 1863). The Botanical Department of the Hungarian National Museum (now the: Botanical Department of the Museum of Natural History) purchased botanical collections - also others besides the Herbarium Kitaibelianum - from several collectors and it was augmented also by exchanging plants and receiving presents (c. f. FILARSZKY 1902). The present paper discusses 18 types, of these 10 are KITAIBEL* s types, while the others were described by SCHOTT (1), SIMONKAI (4) and JÁVOR KA (3). In working up the types, SZUJKÓ-LACZA' s paper (1974) was used as basic reference. In the list the genera of Boraginaceae follow SOÓ'

s system (SOÓ 1968) and within this the species appear in alphabetical order. The names are followed the date of description, the kind of type, literature (Lit. ) containing the first description of the plant, eventual synonyms (Syn. ), the data of the label (or