Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C)
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
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Cuscuta europaea
Linnaeus var.
epithymum
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 124. 1753
.
RCN: 1023.
Basionym of:
Cuscuta epithymum
(L.) L. (1759)
.
Lectotype
(
Garcia
& Cafferty in
Taxon
54: 478. 2005): Herb. Burser XII: 104 (
UPS
)
.
Current name:
Cuscuta epithymum
(L.) L.
(
Cuscutaceae
).
Note:
Rajpur & Tahir (in Nair & Ali,
Fl. Pakistan
189: 14. 1988) erroneously designated 170.4 (LINN), which is not original material, as the type for this name.
Garcia
& Cafferty rejected this type choice, designating instead Burser material as
lectotype
.