Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part X)
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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Ximenia aegyptiaca
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 1194. 1753
.
"Habitat in Aegypto." RCN: 2690.
Lectotype
(Basak in Thothrathi in
Fasc. Fl. India
4: 20. 1980; Sands in
Kew Bull.
56: 51, 55. 2001): [icon] "
Agihalid
" in Alpino,
De Plantis Aegypti
: 38, 39, excl. fr. 1640. -
Epitype
(Sands in
Kew Bull.
56: 51. 2001): Tanzania. Tanga Prov., Mombe Forest reserve, 29 Nov 1962,
Semsei 3580
(K).
Current name:
Balanites aegyptiaca
(L.) Delile
(
Zygophyllaceae
/
Balanitaceae
).
Note:
Sands restricted
Basak's
earlier type choice by excluding the fruits depicted by Alpino, and also designated an
epitype
.