Monarda fistulosa L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 651-689 : 681

Monarda fistulosa Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1: 22. 1753 .

"Habitat in Canada." RCN: 176.

Lectotype (Reveal in Jarvis & al. in Taxon 50: 513. 2001): Herb. Clifford: 11, Monarda 1, sheet 5 (BM-000557572) .

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

Current name: Monarda fistulosa L. ( Lamiaceae ).

Note: Fernald (in Rhodora 3: 14. 1901) discussed Herb. Linn. 40.1 ( LINN) in some detail but did not call it the type (in contrast to his comments on M. mollis L. on the same page). Epling (in J. Bot. 67: 3. 1929) noted material in LINN, as well as in Clifford’s herbarium, and treated one of the latter sheets as the "standard specimen" (not the same as the type). McClintock & Epling (in Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 20: 165. 1942) followed Epling, and Scora (in Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 41: 34. 1967) stated that the name was probably based on a garden plant in the Linnaean herbarium. Scora’s statement is insufficiently precise to be admitted as a typification, particularly as it is unclear which sheet (40.1 or 40.2, both annotated by Linnaeus) was intended. The collections are not part of a single gathering, so Art. 9.15 does not apply. Reveal’s type choice is therefore the earliest formal typification.