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
610
650
book chapter
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971
978-0-9506207-7-0
291971
Lippia ovata
Linnaeus
,
Systema Naturae
, ed. 12, 2
: 423;
Mantissa Plantarum
: 89. 1767
.
"Habitat ad Cap. b. spei." RCN: 4601.
Type not designated.
Original material:
Herb. Linn. No. 801.2 (
LINN
)
.
Current name:
Microdon capitatus
(P.J. Bergius) Levyns
(
Globulariaceae
).
Note:
Although Rolfe (in
J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
20: 347. 1884) noted the existence of 801.2 (LINN), he did not indicate it as type, and Hilliard (
Tribe
Selagineae
: 12. 1999) did so, but with doubt ("Type: sheet no. 801.2 herb. LINN?").