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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Cassia bicapsularis
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 376. 1753
.
"Habitat in India." RCN: 2962.
Lectotype
(de Wit in
Webbia
11: 236. 1956): Herb. Linn. No. 528.10 (
LINN
)
.
Current name:
Senna bicapsularis
(L.) Roxb.
(
Fabaceae
:
Caesalpinioideae
).
Note:
Fawcett & Rendle (
Fl. Jamaica
4: 103. 1920) noted the existence of 528.10 (LINN), but did not refer to it as the type. De
Wit's
treatment of this collection as the
holotype
is accepted as a lectotypification (Art. 9.8).