Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part G)
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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Gentiana autumnalis
Linnaeus
,
Cat.
Edwards's
Nat. Hist.
: 11. 1776
.
Lectotype
(Pringle in
Brittonia
19: 2. 1967): [icon] "
The Autumnal Gentian of the Desart
" in Edwards, Gleanings Nat. Hist. 1: 98, t. 255. 1758 (see p. 101).
Current name:
Gentiana autumnalis
L.
(
Gentianaceae
).
Note:
Fernald (in
Rhodora
52: 68-69. 1950) gives an informative explanation of the circumstances surrounding the publication of this name and states that it is based on
Edwards'
plate and
Bartram's
description. Pringle, however, referred to the plate as "the type".