Jungermannia pusilla Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 1136. 1753
Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part J)
Jarvis, Charlie
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Jungermanniopsida
Fossombroniaceae
Fossombronia
Plantae
Fossombroniales
Bryophyta
species
pusilla
Jungermannia pusillaLinnaeus, Species Plantarum2: 1136. 1753.
"Habitat in Europae rupibus, ericetis humentibus." RCN: 8138.
Lectotype(Isoviita in Acta Bot. Fenn.89: 22. 1970): [icon] " Lichenastrumexiguum, capitulis nigris lucidis, e cotylis parvis nascentibus" in Dillenius, Hist. Musc.: 513, t. 74, f. 46. 1741. - Voucher: Herb. Dillenius ( OXF). - Epitype(Stotler & Crandall-Stotler in J. Bryol.27: 73, f. 1D, E, F. 2005): Herb. Dillenius [sheet] CLXIII, n. 46. L. exiguum, capitulis nigris lucidis, etc., as Jungermannia pusilla(OXF).
Note:See Stotler & Crandall-Stotler (in J. Bryol.27: 71-73. 2005) who provide a detailed analysis of the typification of this name, reproducing the protologue (f. 1A) and, like Isoviita, treat the Dillenius plate (illustrated as f. 1C) as the lectotype. They also designate an epitypefrom the Dillenian herbarium, illustrating it (f. 1D, E) and reproducing an SEM image of a spore taken from it.
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