Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part D)
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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Dolichos minimus
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 726. 1753
.
"Habitat in Jamaica." RCN: 5339.
Lectotype
(Stearn,
Introd.
Linnaeus'
Sp. Pl.
(Ray Soc. ed.): 47. 1957): [icon]
"
Dolichos minimus
, floribus luteis"
in Linnaeus, Hort. Cliff.: 360, t. 21. 1738.
Current name:
Rhynchosia minima
(L.)
DC. (
Fabaceae
:
Faboideae
).
Note:
Verdcourt (in Milne-Redhead & Polhill,
Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Leguminosae
4: 756. 1971), followed by many authors, treated material in
Sloane's
herbarium as
lectotype
. However, these specimens were never studied by Linnaeus and are not original material for the name. Stearn had in any case previously designated a
Hortus Cliffortianus
illustration as type.