Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part H)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
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London
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Houstonia purpurea
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 105. 1753
.
"Habitat in Virginia." RCN: 858.
Lectotype
(Reveal & al. in
Huntia
7: 234. 1987):
Clayton 63
[
"506"
] (BM-000042707).
Current name:
Houstonia purpurea
L.
(
Rubiaceae
).
Note:
Terrell (in
Rhodora
61: 168. 1959) evidently regarded material on 128.2 (LINN) as the type, but this collection was a later addition to the herbarium, and ineligible. Reveal & al. designated what is evidently
Clayton 63
(BM) as
lectotype
, despite describing it as
Clayton 506.
Subsequently, Terrell (in
Syst. Bot. Monogr.
48: 50. 1996) has rejected their choice in favour of
Clayton 63
, but it seems clear that both are talking about the same sheet and there has merely been confusion over labelling.