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
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805
book chapter
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971
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Rosmarinus officinalis
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 23. 1753
.
"Habitat in Hispania, G. narbonensi, Galilaea." RCN: 181.
Lectotype
(Hedge in Jarvis & al.,
Regnum Veg.
127: 82. 1993): Herb. Clifford: 14,
Rosmarinus
1 α, sheet 5 (BM-000557615)
.
Generitype
of
Rosmarinus
Linnaeus.
Current name:
Rosmarinus officinalis
L.
(
Lamiaceae
).
Note:
Siddiqi (in Jafri & El-Gadi,
Fl. Libya
118: 30. 1985) and Hedge (in Ali & Nasir,
Fl. Pakistan
192: 26. 1990) treated 41.2 and 41.1 (LINN) respectively as the type. However, neither sheet appears to have been present in the herbarium in 1753, and Hedge subsequently designated Clifford material as the
lectotype
.