Verbena officinalis L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part V), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 911-926 : 916

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Verbena officinalis Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1: 20. 1753 View Cited Treatment .

"Habitat in Europae mediterraneae ruderatis." RCN: 164.

Lectotype (Verdcourt in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 98. 1993): Herb. Clifford: 11, Verbena 6, sheet 6 (BM-000557564) .

Generitype of Verbena Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 116. 1929).

Current name: Verbena officinalis L. ( Verbenaceae ).

Note: Jafri (in Nasir & Ali, Fl. W. Pakistan 77: 4. 1977), followed by a number of later authors, indicated 35.15 (LINN) as type. However, this sheet lacks the Species Plantarum number (i.e. “13”) and is a post-1753 addition to the herbarium, and not original material for the name. Verdcourt’s choice of a Clifford sheet as lectotype is followed here.