Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P)
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
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Pteronia camphorata
(Linnaeus) Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
, ed. 2, 2
: 1176. 1763
.
"Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 6076.
Basionym:
Pterophora camphorata
L. (1760)
.
Lectotype
(Lowrey in Jarvis & Turland in
Taxon
47: 365. 1998): Herb. Linn. No. 980.2 (
LINN
)
.
Generitype
of
Pteronia
Linnaeus
,
nom. cons.
Current name:
Pteronia camphorata
(L.) L.
(
Asteraceae
).
Note:
Pteronia
Linnaeus (1763)
,
nom. cons
, against
Pterophorus
Boehm. (Oct 1760)
and
Pterophora
Linnaeus (Dec 1760)
.
Hutchinson & Phillips (in
Ann. S. African Mus.
9: 278. 1917) said that the genus is "founded by Linnaeus...on a figure published by Plukenet" which is "an excellent representation of
P. camphorata
L.
the type of the genus". However, the statement is not accepted here as effecting typification of the name.