Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part R)
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
785
805
book chapter
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971
978-0-9506207-7-0
291971
Robinia mitis
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
, ed. 2, 2
: 1044. 1763
,
nom. illeg.
"Habitat in India." RCN: 5452.
Replaced synonym:
Cytisus pinnatus
L. (1753)
.
Lectotype
(Smith,
Fl. Vitiensis Nova
3: 170. 1985): [icon] "
Phaseolo affinis Arbor Indica Coral dicta polyphyllos non spinosa, foliis mollibus subhirsutis
" in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 104, f. 3. 1691; Almag. Bot.: 293. 1696.
Current name:
Millettia pinnata
(L.) Panigrahi
(
Fabaceae
:
Faboideae
).
Note:
Merrill (in
Philipp. J. Sci., C
, 5: 101. 1910) took up this name in place of
Cytisus pinnatus
L. (1753)
and interpreted
R. mitis
via
Herb. Linn. No. 913.3 (
LINN
)
.
Robinia mitis
is, however, an illegitimate renaming of
C. pinnatus
and consequently the two names are homotypic. Although annotated with
"mitis"
by Linnaeus, sheet 913.3 (LINN) is not original material for
C. pinnatus
.
Smith appears to have been the first to make a formal choice of type for
C. pinnatus
(and hence
R. mitis
).