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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Cynosurus indicus
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 72. 1753
.
"Habitat in Indiis." RCN: 611.
Lectotype
(Phillips in Cafferty & al. in
Taxon
49: 249. 2000): [icon]
"
Gramen Dactyloides
spicis deorsum aristatis"
in Burman, Thes. Zeylan.: 106, t. 47, f. 1. 1737. -
Epitype
(Phillips in Cafferty & al. in
Taxon
49: 249. 2000): Sri Lanka. Central Province, Matale District, 5 miles South of Matale on Kandy Road, 1970,
Clayton 5330
(K;
iso-
PDA, US).
Current name:
Eleusine indica
(L.) Gaertn.
(
Poaceae
).
Note:
Although
Kerguelen
(in
Lejeunia
, n.s., 75: 140. 1975) stated "Type:
...LINN"
, this is not accepted as a formal typification, for the reasons explained by Cafferty & al. (in
Taxon
49: 240. 2000). Sherif & Siddiqi (in Jafri & El-Gadi,
Fl. Libya
145: 258. 1988) indicated
Herb. Linn. 91.15 (
LINN
)
as type but this specimen was evidently a post-1753 addition to the herbarium and not original material for the name. Phillips (in
Kew Bull.
27: 256. 1972) and Poilecot (in
Boissiera
56: 235. 1999) indicated the Burman plate as perhaps the type (i.e. with
"?"
), which is therefore ineffective. Phillips subsequently formalised this choice, with the additional designation of an
epitype
.