Psoralea tenuifolia L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 718-782 : 777

Psoralea tenuifolia Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2: 763. 1753.

"Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 5624.

Neotype (Stirton in Turland & Jarvis in Taxon 46: 480. 1997): Specimen labelled "1382. 4. Psoralea verucosa [sic!]. P. angustifolia ", [dated] 1808 (PRUH; iso- BM-photo).

Current name: Psoralea tenuifolia L. ( Fabaceae : Faboideae ).

Note: At the time of its typification, Psoralea tenuifolia (for which no original material exists) was not in current use, but Stirton believed it to apply to an unrecognised, glabrous species confused with P. verrucosa Willd. , a densely wart-encrusted plant with pedunculate, congested inflorescences. He therefore neotypified the Linnaean name in the sense of the glabrous species.