Helicteres isora L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part H), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 557-585 : 564-565

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Helicteres isora Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2: 963. 1753.

"Habitat in Malabaria, Jamaica." RCN: 6970.

Lectotype (Howard in J. Arnold Arbor. 54: 454. 1973): [icon] " Helicteres arbor Ind. Or. siliqua varicosa, & funiculi in modum contortuplicata" in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 245, f. 2 [closed fr. only]. 1692; Almag. Bot.: 181. 1696.

Generitype of Helicteres Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 186. 1929).

Current name: Helicteres isora L. ( Sterculiaceae ).

Note: Leach (in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 52. 1993) designated the cited Rheede plate as type but this choice is pre-dated by that of Howard, as noted by Cristóbal (in Bonplandia 11: 170. 2001).