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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Polygala heisteria
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 704. 1753
.
"Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 5153.
Replaced synonym of:
Heisteria pungens
P.J. Bergius (1767)
.
Lectotype
(Wijnands in Jarvis & al.,
Regnum Veg
. 127: 52. 1993): Herb. Clifford: 352,
Heisteria
1 (BM-000646524)
.
Current name:
Muraltia heisteria
(L.)
DC. (
Polygalaceae
).
Note:
Polygala heisteria
is homotypic with
Heisteria pungens
P.J. Bergius (1767)
, the
generitype
of
Heisteria
Linnaeus (1758)
,
nom. rej
. in favour of
Heisteria
Jacq. (1760)
(
Olacaceae
),
nom. cons
. Levyns (in
J. S. African Bot., Suppl
. 2: 216. 1954) indicated 882.33 (LINN) as
lectotype
, but this collection lacks the relevant
Species Plantarum
number (i.e.
"13"
) and was a post-1753 addition to the herbarium, and is not original material for the name.