Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
London
Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types
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Peplis tetrandra
Linnaeus
,
Amoenitates Academicae
5
: 378, 413. 1760
.
RCN: 2573.
Type not designated.
Original material:
Herb. Linn. No. 458.3 (
LINN
)
.
Current name:
Lucya tetrandra
(L.) K. Schum.
(
Lythraceae
).
Note:
This name did not appear in either
Syst. Nat.
, ed. 10, 2 (
May-Jun
1759),
Fl. Jamaicensis
(Nov 1759) or
Pugill. Jam. Pl.
(Dec 1759). However, it was an addition to both of the latter dissertations in their reprinted editions in the
Amoenitates Academicae
in 1760. In
Amoen. Acad.
5: 378 (
Fl. Jamaicensis
) there is a cross-reference to the account in the reprint of
Pugill. Jam. Pl.
(in
Amoen. Acad.
5: 413), where there is a description. Consequently, Howard (in
J. Arnold Arbor.
54: 460. 1973) was incorrect to give the date of the name as 1759, nor can the Browne description (there is no figure) be the
holotype
.