Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M)
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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Marrubium candidissimum
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 583. 1753
.
"Habitat in Creta?" RCN: 4255.
Lectotype
(Turland in Jarvis & al. in
Taxon
50: 512. 2001): Herb. Linn. No. 738.4, lower specimen (
LINN
)
. -
Epitype
(Turland in Jarvis & al. in
Taxon
50: 513. 2001): Greece. Crete, Sfakia. Lefka Ori, 4km W of summit of Mt. Melindaou, 1,500m, 2 Jul 1994,
Turland 815
(BM-000098230;
iso-
UPA).
Current name:
Sideritis syriaca
L. subsp.
syriaca
(
Lamiaceae
).
Note:
Lacaita (in
J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
47: 155-159. 1925) observed that this name had been in use for the taxon subsequently known as
M. incanum
Desr.
, but that the two Clifford sheets (illustrated by him as f. 2 and 3) are identifiable as
M. globosum
Montbr. & Auch. He
identified
Herb. Linn. 738.3 (
LINN
)
as a mixture of
M. incanum
and
M. supinum
L.
, with sheet 738.4 (LINN) a further mixture of a species of
Marrubium
, and
Sideritis syriaca
.
Lacaita did not formally choose a type for
M. candidissimum
, which has been associated with a number of different species of
Marrubium
at one time or another. As a result of this confusion, the name has fallen out of use in recent years. Typification of this name using any of the available
Marrubium
elements could have displaced one of the now established later names, and caused considerable confusion. Turland therefore typified the name using the specimen of
S. syriaca
, supported by an
epitype
, allowing
M. candidissimum
to fall into its synonymy.