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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782
book chapter
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971
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Piper nigrum
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 28. 1753
.
"Habitat in India." RCN: 230.
Lectotype
(Huber in Dassanayake & Fosberg,
Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon
6: 283. 1987): Herb. Hermann 3: 21; 4: 11, No. 26 (BM).
Generitype
of
Piper
Linnaeus
(vide Hitchcock in
Amer. J. Bot
. 10: 513. 1923).
Current name:
Piper nigrum
L.
(
Piperaceae
).
Note:
Huber's
type choice is of material from a single gathering, but distributed between two of
Hermann's
bound volumes, so the typification is valid under Art. 9.15.