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
Rumex lunaria
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 336. 1753
.
"Habitat in Canariis." RCN: 2592.
Type not designated.
Original material:
Herb. Linn. No. 464.24 (
LINN
)
;
Herb. Clifford: 139,
Rumex
8 (
BM
)
; [icon] in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 252, f. 3. 1694; Almag. Bot.: 8. 1696; [icon] in Bauhin & Cherler, Hist. Pl. Univ. 2: 994. 1651.
Current name:
Rumex lunaria
L.
(
Polygonaceae
).
Note:
Siddiqi & El Taife (in Jafri & El-Gadi,
Fl. Libya
106: 12. 1983) indicated as type 464.25 (LINN). However, this is an
Alstroemer
collection that did not reach Linnaeus until 1762 so it cannot be original material for the name.