Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C)
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
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971
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Cucubalus aegyptiacus
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 415. 1753
.
"Habitat in Aegypto." RCN: 3228.
Neotype
(Hosny in Cafferty & Jarvis in
Taxon
53: 1051. 2004): Israel. Jerusalem, 17 Mar 1911,
J.E. Dinsmore 618
(CAI).
Current name:
Silene aegyptiaca
(L.) L.
f. (
Caryophyllaceae
).
Note:
Melzheimer (in Rechinger,
Fl. Iranica
163: 499. 1988) stated
"Typus...
Herb. Linn.", but this does not distinguish between sheets 582.8 and 582.10, both of which bear the epithet
"aegyptiacus"
. However, on sheet 582.8 this epithet has been deleted in favour of "5 stellatus" (written by Linnaeus), and the material is a good match for the protologue of
C. stellatus
L.
, of which name it is the
lectotype
. Sheet 582.10 bears material received from Latour, lacks a
Species Plantarum
number (i.e.
"7"
), and was received after 1753. Neither sheet is original material for
C. aegyptiacus
.
Linnaeus mentioned Hasselquist in the protologue but, in the absence of any extant material, Hosny designated a
neotype
.