Bromelia pinguin Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 285. 1753
Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part B)
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Bromelia pinguin Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 285. 1753
NCH5
L.
Linnaeus
1753
Liliopsida
Bromeliaceae
Bromelia
Plantae
Poales
Tracheophyta
species
pinguin
Bromelia pinguinLinnaeus, Species Plantarum1: 285. 1753.
"Habitat in Jamaica, Barbados." RCN: 2265.
Lectotype(Smith in Phytologia15: 170. 1967): [icon] "Pinguin, an Bromelia pyramidata, aculeis nigris Plum."in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 2: 320, t. 240, f. 311. 1732.
Note:Grant & Zijlstra (in Selbyana19: 96. 1998) argue that B. karatasis the generitype, the choice having been made by Regel (in Gartenflora17: 67. 1868) which therefore pre-dates the more widely accepted choice of B. pinguin, made by Hitchcock ( Prop. Brit. Bot.: 144. 1929).