Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
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London
Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types
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Psychotria asiatica
Linnaeus
,
Systema Naturae
, ed. 10, 2
: 929. 1759
.
["Habitat in Jamaica & India Orientali."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 1: 245 (1762). RCN: 1362.
Lectotype
(Petit in
Bull. Jard. Bot.
Etat
Bruxelles
34: 13. 1964): Herb. Linn. No. 231.1 (
LINN
)
.
Generitype
of
Psychotria
Linnaeus
,
nom. cons.
Current name:
Psychotria asiatica
L.
(
Rubiaceae
).
Note:
Psychotria Linnaeus
,
nom. cons.
against
Myrstiphyllum
P. Browne (1756)
and
Psychotrophum
P. Browne (1756)
.
Davis & al. (in
Bot. J. Linn. Soc.
135: 35-42. 2001) give an extensive review of the typification, and identity, of
P. asiatica
, which they interpret as close to
P. rubra
(Lour.) Poir.