<Unknown Taxon>

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part N), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 690-695 : 694

Nyctanthes arbor-tristis Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 6. 1753.

“Habitat in India.” RCN: 38.

Type not designated.

Original material: [icon] in Rheede, Hort. Malab. 1: 35, t. 21. 1678.

Generitype of Nyctanthes Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock in Amer. J. Bot. 10: 514. 1923).

Current name: Nyctanthes arbor - tristis L. (Oleaceae).

Note: Moldenke & Moldenke (in Dassanayake & Fosberg, Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 4: 179. 1993) indicated “Grimm 116” (LINN) as type, but no such specimen (which in any case seems most unlikely to be an original element) has been traced.