Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A)
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
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Acrostichum polypodioides
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 1068. 1753
.
"Habitat in Virginia, Jamaica." RCN: 7775.
Lectotype
(Verdcourt in Beentje,
Fl. Trop. E. Africa,
Polypodiaceae
:
.
31. 2001): [icon]
"Filix
Polypodium
dicta minima, Jamaicensis, foliis aversa parte, ferrugineo pulvere Asplenii ritu, circumquaque respersis"
in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 289, f. 1. 1694; Almag. Bot.: 153. 1696. -
Typotype
: Herb. Sloane 129: 29 (
BM-SL
)
.
Current name:
Marginaria polypodioides
(L.) Tidestr. var.
polypodioides
(
Polypodiaceae
).
Note:
Weather by (in
Contr. Gray Herb.
124: 28. 1939), followed by later authors, treated material in
Plukenet's
herbarium as the type but this was not seen by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name.