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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book chapter
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Calligonum polygonoides
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 530. 1753
.
"Habitat in monte Ararat." RCN: 3944.
Type not designated.
Original material:
Herb. Clifford: 212,
Calligonum
1 (
BM
)
; [icon] in Tournefort, Rel. Voy. Levant (Paris ed.) 2: 356. 1717.
Generitype
of
Calligonum
Linnaeus.
Current name:
Calligonum polygonoides
L.
(
Polygonaceae
).
Note:
A. number of authors, including Cullen (in Davis,
Fl. Turkey
2: 267. 1967) and Bhopal & Chaudhri (in
Pakistan Syst.
1(2): 66. 1977) have treated Tournefort material (P-TOURN) as the type but this was not studied by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name.