Osmitopsis asteriscoides (L. ex P.J. Bergius) Less.

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part O), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 696-717 : 711

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scientific name	Osmitopsis asteriscoides (L. ex P.J. Bergius) Less.
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Osmites asteriscoides Linnaeus View in CoL , Systema Naturae, ed. 12, 2: 571. 1767, nom. illeg.

RCN: 6570.

Type not designated.

Original material: none traced.

Current name: Osmitopsis asteriscoides (L. ex P.J. Bergius) Less. View in CoL View at ENA ( Asteraceae ).

Note: Although this binomial appeared first in Linnaeus’ Pl. Rar. Afr.: 24 (1760), Osmites L. was not published until 1764, and the binomial was consequently not validated until 1767 when Bergius (in Descr. Pl. Cap. Bon. Spei: 305. Sep 1767) published it, attributing it to Linnaeus. Bremer (in Bot. Not. 125: 40. 1972) treated Bergius’ name, typified by a collection in Bergius’ herbarium (SBT), as heterotypic with respect to Linnaeus’ slightly later use of the name (in Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 2: 571. Oct 1767). This interpretation leaves Linnaeus’ 1767 name as a later homonym of that of Bergius, and hence illegitimate.