Fossombronia pusilla (L.) Nees, 1838

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part J), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 599-607 : 603

Jungermannia pusilla Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2: 1136. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae rupibus, ericetis humentibus." RCN: 8138.

Lectotype (Isoviita in Acta Bot. Fenn. 89: 22. 1970): [icon] " Lichenastrum exiguum, 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).

Current name: Fossombronia pusilla (L.) Nees ( Codoniaceae ).

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 epitype from the Dillenian herbarium, illustrating it (f. 1D, E) and reproducing an SEM image of a spore taken from it.