Asclepias variegata L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 252-342 : 322

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Asclepias variegata Linnaeus View in CoL , Species Plantarum 1: 215. 1753 View Cited Treatment .

"Habitat in America boreali." RCN: 1776.

Lectotype (Rendle in Proc. Linn. Soc. London 148: 63. 1936): [icon] " Apocynum American, erectum, tuberosa radice non incanum, foliis rigidioribus, latis, subrotundis, floribus alb. intus purpureis, summo cauli Corymbum magnum efformantibus" in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 77, f. 1. 1691; Almag. Bot.: 34. 1696. - Typotype: Herb. Sloane 95: 57 ( BM-SL) .

Current name: Asclepias variegata L. View in CoL View at ENA ( Asclepiadaceae ).

Note: Although Woodson (in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 41: 62, 118. 1954) indicated 310.20 (LINN) as the type, Rendle’s choice has priority.