Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L)
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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book chapter
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Lactuca sativa
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 795. 1753
.
"Habitat - - - -
-"
RCN: 5818.
Lectotype
(Alavi in Jafri & El-Gadi,
Fl. Libya
107: 403. 1983): Herb. Linn. No. 950.2 (
LINN
)
.
Generitype
of
Lactuca
Linnaeus
(vide Green,
Prop. Brit. Bot.
: 177. 1929).
Current name:
Lactuca sativa
L.
(
Asteraceae
).
Note:
De Vries & Jarvis (in
Taxon
36: 142. 1987) provided a detailed review of the original elements, illustrating many of them, including their chosen type (as f. 1), but they were unaware of
Alavi's
earlier choice.