Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part B)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
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London
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Byssus flos-aquae
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 1168. 1753
.
"Habitat in Mari & omni aqua, prima aestate; nocte descendit parum, die natat fere." RCN: 8397.
Neotype
(Pentecost in Spencer & al. in
Taxon
, in press): Rabenhorst, Algen Europas No. 1463, "
Sphaerozyga flos aquae
(Linn.)" (BM-000769430).
Current name:
Aphanizomenon flos-aquae
(L.) Ralfs ex Bornet & Flahault
(
Nostocaceae
).
Note:
Although Drouet & Dailey (in
Butler Univ. Bot. Stud.
12: 145. 1956) attempted to typify the name using 1278.1 (LINN), this collection is annotated only by Linnaeus filius and is evidently a post-1753 addition to the herbarium and not original material for the name. For this reason, Ross & Irvine (in
Taxon
16: 184. 1967) rejected this type choice.