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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Lobelia trapa
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum 2
: 929. 1753
orth. var.
"Habitat in Peru." RCN: 6740.
Lectotype
(Matthews in
Kew Mag.
5: 161. 1988): [icon]
"Rapuntium spicatum,foliis acutis, vulgo Tupa"
in
Feuillee
, J. Obs. 2: 739, t. 29. 1714.
Current name:
Lobelia tupa
L.
(
Campanulaceae
).
Note:
The specific epithet was drawn from
Feuillee's
phrase name, misquoted by Linnaeus as "Rap. spicatum, fol. auritis, vulgo Trapa". He corrected the spelling in
Sp. Pl.
, ed. 2, 2: 1318 (1763).