Hemionitis rufa (L.) Sw.

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 252-342 : 260

Acrostichum rufum Linnaeus , Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 1320. 1759.

["Habitat in America."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 1526 (1763). RCN: 7777.

Lectotype (Tryon in Contr. Gray Herb. 194: 82. 1964): [icon] "Filix minor ruffa lanugine tota obducta, in pinnas tantum divisa, raras, non crenatas subrotundas" in Sloane, Voy. Jamaica 1: 87, t. 45, f. 1. 1707. - Typotype: Herb. Sloane 1: 96 ( BM-SL) .

Current name: Hemionitis rufa (L.) Sw. ( Pteridaceae ).

Note: Although treated as a new combination based on Pteris rufa L. (1753) by some authors, this is unjustified as there is no direct reference to the earlier name in the protologue of A. rufum , and P. rufa also appears in the same work (1759), as noted by Tryon & Stolze (in Fieldiana, Bot. 22: 47. 1989). Linnaeus did, however, treat the two names as synonymous in 1763. See also Lellinger (in Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 23: 9. 1972) who indicated what is evidently 1245.6 (LINN, though cited from BM) as the type. This choice is, however, pre-dated by that of Tryon.