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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Leucadendron proteoides
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 91. 1753
.
"Habitat ad Cap. b. spei." RCN: 780.
Replaced synonym of:
Protea purpurea
L.
,
nom. illeg.
Neotype
(Rourke in
J. S. African Bot.
42: 203. 1976): Herb. Linn. No. 116.16 (
LINN
)
.
Current name:
Diastella proteoides
(
L.) Druce
(
Proteaceae
).
Note:
The collection indicated as the type by Rourke lacks the relevant
Species Plantarum
number (i.e.
"2"
) and was a post-1753 addition to the herbarium, and is not original material for the name. However, in the apparent absence of any original material, this choice is accepted as a neotypification (Art. 9.8).