Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part D)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
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Dianthus monspeliacus
Linnaeus
,
Systema Naturae
, ed. 10, 2
: 1029. 1759
.
RCN: 3214.
Lectotype
(Bernal Cid in Cafferty & Jarvis in
Taxon
53: 1051. 2004):
Seguier
, Herb. Linn. No. 581.17 (
LINN
)
.
Current name:
Dianthus hyssopifolius
L.
(
Caryophyllaceae
).
Note:
Rickett (in
Lloydia
18: 60. 1955) and Nordenstam (in
Bot. Not.
114: 278. 1961) both noted that
D. monspessulanus
did not feature in
Centuria I Plantarum
(1755) and was a new addition in the later version of that thesis published in the
Amoenitates Academicae
(Nov 1759). Both
D. monspessulanus
and
Linnaeus'
earlier (
May-Jun
1759)
D. monspeliacus
have very similar diagnoses. Sheet 581.17 (LINN) bears material from
Seguier
annotated "monspeliensis A" by Linnaeus, the
"A"
associating the material with
D. monspeliacus
(species
"A"
in
Syst. Nat.
, ed. 10, 2: 1029), and
Seguier
is mentioned in the protologue of
D. monspessulanus
("Habitat Monspelii. Sauvages; Veronae. Seguier"). Partly because there has been some usage of
D. monspessulanus
(by e.g. Greuter & al.,
Med-Checklist
1: 199. 1984; Tutin & Walters in Tutin & al.,
Fl. Europaea
, ed. 2, 1: 238. 1993), it seems preferable to treat these two as independent, though homotypic, names (rather than orthographic variants).
Lainz
&
Munoz
Garmendia (in
Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid
44: 571-572. 1987) clarified the typification of
D. hyssopifolius
and they, and Bernal & al. (in Castroviejo & al.,
Fl. Iberica
2. 426-462. 1990) have treated it and
D. monspeliacus
as synonymous. The typifications made by Bernal Cid for both
D. monspeliacus
and
D. monspessulanus
formalise this position.