Dioscorea communis ( Linnaeus 1753: 1028 ) Caddick & Wilkin (2002: 112)

Ferrer-Gallego, P. Pablo & Boisset, Fernando, 2016, Typification of Dioscorea communis and its synonym Tamus communis var. subtriloba (Dioscoreaceae), Phytotaxa 260 (3), pp. 258-266 : 264

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scientific name

Dioscorea communis ( Linnaeus 1753: 1028 ) Caddick & Wilkin (2002: 112)
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Dioscorea communis ( Linnaeus 1753: 1028) Caddick & Wilkin (2002: 112) View in CoL

Bas.: Tamus communis Linnaeus (1753: 1028)

Type (lectotype, designated here):—Herb. Linn. No. 1181.2 ( LINN! [digital image], image of the lectotype is available at http://linnean-online.org/11848/).

= Tamus communis var. subtriloba Gussone (1844: 880–881) View in CoL

Type (lectotype, designated here):—[ Italy, Sicily, Palermo] “Vergine Maria”, April–May ( NAP! s.c. [digital image!], for image of the lectotype see Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 ).

= Tamus cretica Linnaeus (1753: 1028) View in CoL

Type (neotype (designated by Kit Tan in Davis (1984: 553) as isotype and corrected by Jarvis (2007: 879) as neotype):—Herb. Tournefort No. 283 (P, barcode P00665856! [digital image!]).

Caddick, L. R., Wilkin, P., Rudall, P. J., Hedderson, T. A. J. & Chase, M. W. (2002 b) Yams reclassified: a recircumscription of Dioscoreaceae and Dioscoreales. Taxon 51: 103 - 114. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 1554967

Gussone, G. (1844) Florae siculae synopsis, vol. 2 (2). Tramater, Napoli, pp. 529 - 920. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 50455

Jarvis, C. E. (2007) Order out of Chaos. Linnaean plant names and their types. Linnean Society of London with the Natural History Museum, London, 1016 pp.

Linnaeus, C. (1753) Species Plantarum, vols. 1 - 2. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae [Stockholm], 1200 pp. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 669

Gallery Image

FIGURE 3. Lectotype of Tamus communis var. subtriloba Guss., [Italy, Sicily, Palermo] “Vergine Maria”; NAP s.c.—Photography by courtesy of the Herbarium Neapolitanum, University of Naples, Italy, reproduced with permission.

LINN

Linnean Society of London

NAP

Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica (formerly National Academy of Peiping)

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Dioscoreales

Family

Dioscoreaceae

Genus

Dioscorea