Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C)
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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Croton hastatus
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 1005. 1753
.
"Habitat in India." RCN: 7285.
Type not designated.
Original material: [icon] in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 220, f. 2. 1694; Almag. Bot.: 320. 1696 -
Typotype
: Herb. Sloane 97: 163; 94: 69 (BM-SL).
Current name:
Tragia plukenetii
Radcl.
-
Sm. (
Euphorbiaceae
).
Note:
Specific epithet spelled
"hastatum"
in the protologue.
See comments by Prain (in
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew
1918: 64. 1918) and Radcliffe-Smith (in Polhill,
Fl. Trop. E. Africa,
Euphorbiaceae
: 296. 1987), neither of whom formally typified the name. The only original material appears to be the cited Plukenet plate.