Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part O)
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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Ornithogalum minus
Linnaeus
,
Mantissa Plantarum Altera
: 364. 1771
.
RCN: 2416.
Type not designated.
Original material: none traced.
Current name:
Ornithogalum umbellatum
L.
(
Liliaceae
/
Hyacinthaceae
).
Note:
See comments by Stearn (in
Ann. Mus. Goulandris
6: 168. 1983). Van Raamsdonk (in
Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. C
, 85: 565. 1982) wrongly treated this as a
nomen nudum
for, though very brief,
Linnaeus'
"simillimum praecedenti...sed huic petala acutiora" does provide a diagnosis.