Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part S)
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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Satureja virginiana
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 567. 1753
.
"Habitat in Virginia." RCN: 4154.
Replaced synonym of:
Thymus virginicus
L. (1774)
,
nom. illeg.
Type not designated.
Original material:
Herb. Clifford: 305,
Clinopodium
3 (
BM
)
;
Clayton 141
(BM);
Herb. Linn. No. 744.21 (
LINN
)
; [icon] in Hermann, Parad. Bat.: 218. 1698; [icon] in Boccone, Mus. Piante Rar. Sicilia: 161, t. 115. 1697; [icon] in Morison, Pl. Hist. Univ. 3: 371, s. 11, t. 7, f. 8. 1699; [icon] in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 54, f. 2. 1691; Almag. Bot.: 110. 1696.
Current name:
Pycnanthemum virginianum
(L.) B.L. Rob. & Fernald
(
Lamiaceae
).
Note:
Epling (in
J. Bot.
67: 7. 1929) reviewed the original elements for the name and described as
"standard"
the Clifford sheet. This and most other elements are identifiable with the species sometimes known as
Pycnanthemum linifolium
Pursh. However
, 744.21 (LINN) is identifiable as the closely related
P. lanceolatum
Pursh, and Grant & Epling
(in
Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot.
20: 221. 1943) reversed the usage adopted by Epling, interpreting the Linnaean name instead via 744.21 (LINN) in the sense of
P. lanceolatum
.
However, they did not designate a type. The name appears to remain untypified.