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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Monarda fistulosa
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 22. 1753
.
"Habitat in Canada." RCN: 176.
Lectotype
(Reveal in Jarvis & al. in
Taxon
50: 513. 2001): Herb. Clifford: 11,
Monarda
1, sheet 5 (BM-000557572)
.
Generitype
of
Monarda
Linnaeus
(vide Hitchcock,
Prop. Brit. Bot
.: 116. 1929).
Current name:
Monarda fistulosa
L.
(
Lamiaceae
).
Note:
Fernald (in
Rhodora
3: 14. 1901) discussed
Herb. Linn. 40.1 (
LINN
)
in some detail but did not call it the type (in contrast to his comments on
M. mollis
L.
on the same page). Epling (in
J. Bot.
67: 3. 1929) noted material in LINN, as well as in
Clifford's
herbarium, and treated one of the latter sheets as the "standard specimen" (not the same as the type). McClintock & Epling (in
Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot.
20: 165. 1942) followed Epling, and Scora (in
Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot.
41: 34. 1967) stated that the name was probably based on a garden plant in the Linnaean herbarium.
Scora's
statement is insufficiently precise to be admitted as a typification, particularly as it is unclear which sheet (40.1 or 40.2, both annotated by Linnaeus) was intended. The collections are not part of a single gathering, so Art. 9.15 does not apply.
Reveal's
type choice is therefore the earliest formal typification.