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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Polypodium arboreum
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 1092. 1753
.
"Habitat in America meridionali." RCN: 7910.
Lectotype
(Caluff & Shelton Serrano in Rankin & Greuter,
Fl. Republ. Cuba
, ser. A, 8(2): 51. 2003): [icon] "
Filix arborescens
pinnulis dentatis
" in Plumier,
Descr. Pl.
Amer
.
: 1, t. 2. 1693.
Current name:
Cyathea arborea
(L.) Sm.
(
Cyatheaceae
).
Note:
Copeland (in
Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot
. 16: 54. 1929) stated that the type is in LINN, but the only sheet there associated with this name appears to be 1251.60, unannotated by Linnaeus and not original material for the name. Tryon (in
Contr. Gray Herb
. 206: 50. 1976) indicated both Plumiers
Traite
Foug.
Amer
.: t. 1 (1705) and his
Descr. Pl.
Amer
.
t. 1 and t. 2 (1693) as
holotype
, and Caluff & Shelton Serrano subsequently restricted this to t. 2 (1693).