Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
London
Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types
252
342
book chapter
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971
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Asclepias fruticosa
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 216. 1753
.
"Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 1785.
Lectotype
(Woodson in
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
41: 151. 1954): Herb. Linn. No. 310.33 (
LINN
)
. -
Epitype
(Goyder & Nicholas in
Kew Bull.
56: 782. 2001): South Africa. Northern Cape, Bloeddrif, 12 Sep 1968,
Hardy 2562
(K;
iso-
PRE, WIND).
Current name:
Gomphocarpus fruticosus
(L.) W.T. Aiton
(
Asclepiadaceae
).
Note:
Woodson cited the sheet number of the type as
"310.23"
(which relates to
A. incarnata
L.
) but this appears to have been a simple error for
"310.33"
.