Asparagus falcatus L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 252-342 : 326

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Asparagus sarmentosus Linnaeus View in CoL , Species Plantarum 1: 314. 1753 View Cited Treatment .

"Habitat in Zeylona." RCN: 2471.

Type not designated.

Original material: [icon] in Hermann, Hort. Lugd.-Bat. Cat.: 62, 650. 1687; [icon] in Herb. Hermann 5: 237, No. 124. BM ; [icon] in Herb. Hermann 5: 385, No. 124. BM .

Current name: Asparagus falcatus L. View in CoL View at ENA ( Liliaceae / Asparagaceae ).

Note: Trimen (Handb. Fl. Ceylon 4: 286. 1898) suggested that the name be abandoned. Van Ooststroom (in Blumea Suppl. 1: 195. 1937) concluded that, as there are only drawings in the BM set of Hermann materials, a specimen in Leiden (fol. 12), identifiable as A. falcatus L. , should be accepted as the type. However, Linnaeus never saw this collection and it is not original material for the name. Jessop (in Bothalia 9: 66. 1966) treated the Hermann drawings (ic. 237, 385, BM) as types but did not distinguish between them. More recently, Kamble (in J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 20: 270, 1996) indicated cultivated material in G as a (neo)type but this is contrary to Art. 9.11 because original material is in existence.