Alternanthera sessilis (L.)

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part G), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 529-556 : 529

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4368852

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scientific name

Alternanthera sessilis (L.)
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Gomphrena polygonoides Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1: 225. 1753 View Cited Treatment .

"Habitat in America meridionali." RCN: 1682.

Basionym of: Illecebrum polygonoides (L.) L. (1762) .

Type not designated.

Original material: [icon] in Hermann, Parad. Bat.: 17. 1698; [icon] in Sloane, Voy. Jamaica 1: 141, t. 86, f. 2. 1707.

Current name: Alternanthera sessilis (L.) DC. ( Amaranthaceae ).

Note: This name had frequently been rejected as a nomen dubium (e.g. by Pedersen in Darwiniana 17: 438. 1967 and Mears & Gillis in J. Arnold Arbor. 58: 62. 1977) before Mears (in Taxon 29: 91. 1980) attempted to dispose of the name by typifying it using material in Herb. Sloane 2: 106 ( BM-SL), which he stated would make it a synonym of Alternanthera sessilis (L.) DC. However, his chosen type is not the material from which Sloane’s t. 86, f. 2 (which was cited by Linnaeus) was prepared, which is identifiable as A. paronychioides A. St. -Hil. Although Mears’ intention was laudable, a neotype cannot be designated when original material exists (Art. 9.11). It appears that formal rejection of the name may be necessary.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Amaranthaceae

Genus

Alternanthera

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Alternanthera sessilis (L.)

Jarvis, Charlie 2007
2007
Loc

Gomphrena polygonoides

Linnaeus 1753: 529
1753
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