Ipomoea alba L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 370-473 : 438

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Convolvulus aculeatus Linnaeus View in CoL , Species Plantarum 1: 155. 1753 View Cited Treatment .

"Habitat in America calidiore." RCN: 1280.

Lectotype (Gunn in Brittonia 24: 153. 1972): [icon] " Convolvulus Americanus , subrotundis foliis, Viticulis spinosis " in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 276, f. 3. 1694; Almag. Bot.: 115. 1696.

Current name: Ipomoea alba L. View in CoL ( Convolvulaceae ).

Note: Verdcourt (in Hubbard & Milne-Redhead, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Convolvulaceae : 130. 1963) designated material in Plukenet’s herbarium (now part of Herb. Sloane), never seen by Linnaeus, as the lectotype. However, it is not original material for the name.