Suriana maritima L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part T), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 878-905 : 890

Tournefortia suffruticosa Linnaeus , Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 1: 202. 1762.

"Habitat in Jamaica." RCN: 1138.

Lectotype (Miller in Cafferty & Jarvis in Taxon 53: 804. 2004): [icon] "Thymeleae facie, frutex maritimus tetraspermos, flore tetrapetalo" in Sloane, Voy. Jamaica 2: 29, t. 162, f. 4. 1725. - Typotype: Herb. Sloane 5: 105 ( BM-SL) .

Current name: Suriana maritima L. ( Surianaceae ).

Note: Published in 1762, although this name did appear in later editions of the Systema Naturae (e.g. ed. 12 in 1767), it was not taken up by other authors and does not appear to be in current use. The sole original element for the name, a Sloane illustration, is identifiable as Suriana maritima L. (and indeed this plate was cited by Linnaeus (1753: 284) as part of the protologue of that name). Typification of T. suffruticosa by Miller using this element resulted in it falling into the synonymy of the earlier S. maritima ( Surianaceae ).