Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
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London
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Marrubium hispanicum
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 583. 1753
.
"Habitat in Hispania." RCN: 4260.
Lectotype
(Heywood in
Agron. Lusit.
20: 202. 1959): Herb. Clifford: 312,
Marrubium
7 (BM-000646091)
.
Current name:
Ballota hispanica
(L.) Benth.
(
Lamiaceae
).
Note:
Lacaita (in
J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
47: 166. 1925) concluded that the name should be abandoned as excessively confused. Heywood (1959) argued that Lacaita was wrong to reject the Clifford material, and that it must be the
lectotype
, also discussing the possibility that rejection of the name might be necessary Patzak (in
Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien
63: 58, 67-69. 1959) followed Heywood as to typification, but rejected the name as ambiguous, taking up
B. hirsuta
Benth.
for the Spanish plant, and
B. rupestris
(Biv.) Vis.
for the Eastern Mediterranean taxon. However, no formal proposal for the rejection of the name has been made.