TAXON 63 (1) • February 2014: 139–145 Şenkardeşler & al. • Lectotypification of lichen names described by Szatala Lectotypification of names of lichen taxa described by Ödön Szatala Ayhan Şenkardeşler,1 László Lőkös2 & Edit Farkas3 1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ege University, Bornova, 35100 Izmir, Turkey 2 Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum, 1476 Budapest, Pf. 222, Hungary 3 Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2163 Vácrátót, Hungary Author for correspondence: Ayhan Şenkardeşler, Ayhan.Senkardesler@ege.edu.tr DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12705/631.9 Abstract The Hungarian lichenologist Ödön Szatala described 169 species and infraspecific taxa, with a majority of these being based on his own collections. He also described taxa from material sent to him for identification. In this study, original material for 27 names (Aspicilia latiloba, A. microspora var. astroidea, A. microspora var. insensibilis, A. subpercaena, Bacidia rhodi, Buellia samothrakiana, Catillaria lenticularis var. transsilvatica, C. servitii, C. zsakii, Dermatocarpon fuscatum, Diplotomma alboatrum var. virescens, Lecania nylanderiana var. ochracea, Lecanora atra var. aegaeica, L. cengiae-samboae, L. rhodi, Lecidea aegaeica, L. aegaeica f. acrustacea, L. aegaeica f. albida, L. aegaeica var. verruculosa, L. euphorea f. decussata, L. iranica, L. stigmatea f. armeniaca, Pertusaria baskalensis, Physcia grisea var. elbursiana, Placodiella olivacea var. stampaliana, Porina rechingeri and Verrucaria filarszkyana) of taxa described by Szatala and based on material collected by others from Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine was examined, and lectotypes were chosen. In addition, Catillaria servitii has been found to be the earliest name for C. praedicta. Keywords Budapest; catalogue; herbarium; Munich; typification; Vienna INTRODUCTION MATERIALS AND METHODS Ödön Szatala (5 February 1889–27 June 1958) is an important figure in the history of Hungarian lichenology. He described 72 species, 26 varieties and 71 forms (Verseghy, 1963) not only from his own collections, but also from those of others; e.g., the collections of H. Lojka, F. Nabelek, and K.H. Rechinger fil. The latter specimens were collected for the Natural History Museum in Vienna (W), and sent to him for identification. As a result of supposed agreements between Szatala and Keissler, the then curator of W, or Szatala and the collectors, duplicates or pieces of many type specimens were retained in his private herbarium. The new taxa described from these collections were published in a series of publications by Szatala (1926, 1931, 1932, 1939, 1941a, 1943a, b, 1957). In the protologue of these publications, only a single location was reported for most names, with no explicit reference to a type. Verseghy (1964) compiled a catalogue of the type specimens deposited in BP, which was supplemented three times (Verseghy, 1968, 1974, 1981). Unfortunately some later authors overlooked the fact that Verseghy typified most of the names listed in her catalogue by listing a single specimen as the “type”. Instead, these authors independently typified some names based on specimens deposited in W (or M). Here we lectotypify the remaining 27 names published by Szatala that lack formal typifications or whose type specimens are now missing. We also provide a detailed discussion of Szatala’s working methods and summarize the reasons behind the institutional deposition of type specimens of the names he published. Type specimens in BP and W of names described by Ödön Szatala were exhaustively searched for during several projects, which had a main focus on taxa that have been reported from Turkey and Southwest Asia. Searching and analysing the material of both herbaria took five months, and about 300,000 specimens were checked envelope-by-envelope. The studies in Vienna were undertaken from May to September 2007 and February to March 2008, and in Budapest from November to December 2006, September 2008 and June to July 2011. During this process, every type specimen was annotated as such and transferred to the type cabinets in the relevant institutions. Available type specimens deposited in M were checked by Dr. Andreas Beck. All newly discovered types are cited here with their herbarium accession number. Locality information is here provided in the same form as written on the original labels, with recent names added in square brackets; Abbott (2009) was used for Greek names, and Microsoft Encarta Interactive World Atlas 2000 for other place names. Specimens were studied by standard light microscopy. For some specimens, high-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC) was performed, following the methods of Arup & al. (1993). Typification. — In some works published by Szatala the depositions of type specimens were unambiguously based on information presented in the protologues (Szatala, 1931, 1932, 1939, 1941a) or the preface to the publication (Rechinger, 1943). Received: 19 Nov 2012 | returned for revision: 14 Jan 2013 | revision received: 29 Oct 2013 | accepted: 28 Nov 2013 | published online ahead of inclusion in print and online issues: 27 Jan 2014 || © International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) 2014 Version of Record (identical to print version). 139