Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
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Cucubalus quadrifidus
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 415. 1753
.
"Habitat in Styriae monte ad oppidum Eisenertz." RCN: 3268.
Basionym of:
Silene quadrifida
(L.) L. (1759)
;
Lychnis quadridentata
L. (1774)
,
nom. illeg.
Lectotype
(Melzheimer & Polatschek in
Phyton (Horn)
31: 285. 1992): [icon] "
Caryophyllus minimus
humilis alter exoticus flore candido amoeno
" in Plantin, Pl. Stirp. Icon.: 445. 1581.
Current name:
Silene quadrifida
(L.) L.
(
Caryophyllaceae
).
Note:
Juel (in
Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Sci. Upsal., Ser. IV
, 5(7): 72-73. 1923) provided an extensive discussion around the name, and particularly the Burser material, which was evidently the source of
Linnaeus'
"Habitat in Styriae monte ad oppidum Eisenertz". However, he does not appear to refer to the Burser material as the type. Walters (in
Feddes Repert.
69: 47. 1964) stated that Dandy had advised him that the (unspecified) type of
C. quadrifidus
was identifiable as
S. alpestris
Jacq., and Walters
therefore recommended that
C. quadrifidus
be rejected as a
nomen ambiguum.
Rauschert (in
Feddes Repert.
79: 415. 1969) also discussed the name, though apparently without indicating a type himself.
However, Melzheimer & Polatschek (in
Phyton
(
Horn
) 31: 284. 1992) subsequently used the name
S. quadrifidus
(L.) L.
in the sense of
S. alpestris
, having formally chosen the cited Plantin plate as a
neotype
. As the plate was cited by Linnaeus, it is in fact a
lectotype
(treated as a correctable error under Art. 9.8).