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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Cactus cochenillifer
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 468. 1753
.
"Habitat in Jamaica & America calidiore." RCN: 3587.
Lectotype
(Howard,
Fl. Lesser Antilles
5: 411. 1989): [icon] "
Tuna mitior flore sanguineo, cochenillifera
" in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 2: 399, t. 297, f. 383. 1732.
Current name:
Nopalea cochenillifera
(L.) Salm-Dyck
(
Cactaceae
).
Note:
Benson (
Cacti U.S. Canada
: 932. 1982) designated a
neotype
but this is contrary to Art. 9.11 as original material is in existence. See Crook & Mottram (in
Bradleya
14: 111. 1996) who noted the original elements, and reproduced the type in colour (their f. 18, p. 127).