Millettia pinnata (L.) Panigrahi, 2005

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part R), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 785-805 : 798

Robinia mitis Linnaeus , Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 2: 1044. 1763, nom. illeg.

"Habitat in India." RCN: 5452.

Replaced synonym: Cytisus pinnatus L. (1753) .

Lectotype (Smith, Fl. Vitiensis Nova 3: 170. 1985): [icon] " Phaseolo affinis Arbor Indica Coral dicta polyphyllos non spinosa, foliis mollibus subhirsutis " in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 104, f. 3. 1691; Almag. Bot.: 293. 1696.

Current name: Millettia pinnata (L.) Panigrahi ( Fabaceae : Faboideae ).

Note: Merrill (in Philipp. J. Sci., C, 5: 101. 1910) took up this name in place of Cytisus pinnatus L. (1753) and interpreted R. mitis via Herb. Linn. No. 913.3 ( LINN). Robinia mitis is, however, an illegitimate renaming of C. pinnatus and consequently the two names are homotypic. Although annotated with “mitis” by Linnaeus, sheet 913.3 (LINN) is not original material for C. pinnatus . Smith appears to have been the first to make a formal choice of type for C. pinnatus (and hence R. mitis ).