Rhizopus stolonifer

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 651-689 : 684

Mucor mucedo Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2: 1185. 1753.

“Habitat in variis putridis: pane, plantis. &c.” RCN: 8531.

Lectotype (Kirk in Taxon 35: 373. 1986): [icon] “ Mucedo capitulo diaphano deinde viridi &postremo nigro” in Malpighi, Anat. Pl. Pars Altera: 64, t. 28, f. 108, A–B, E–G. 1679.

Generitype of Mucor Linnaeus : Fr., nom. rej. (vide Sumstine in Mycologia 2: 127. 1910).

Current name: Rhizopus stolonifer (Ehrenb.: Fr.) Vuill. ( Mucoraceae ).

Note: Mucor L. : Fr., nom. rej. in favour of Mucor Fresen.