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
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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book chapter
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Psychotria herbacea
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
, ed. 2, 1
: 245. 1762
,
nom. illeg.
"Habitat in Indiae utriusque umbrosis roridis." RCN: 1364.
Type not designated.
Original material:
Herb. Linn. No. 231.3 (
LINN
)
; [icon] in Rheede, Hort. Malab. 10: 41, t. 21. 1690.
Current name:
Geophila repens
(L.) I.M. Johnst.
(
Rubiaceae
).
Note:
A later homonym of
P. herbacea
Jacq. (1760)
and hence illegitimate. Although Verdcourt (in Polhill,
Fl. Trop. E. Africa,
Rubiaceae
1: 110. 1976) stated that the type was
"probably"
at LINN (No. 231.3), he did not formally designate it as the type.