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
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London
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Cerbera manghas
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 208. 1753
.
"Habitat in Indiis ad aquas." RCN: 1707.
Lectotype
(Huber in Abeywickrama,
Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon
1(1): 18. 1973): Herb. Hermann 5: 70, No. 106 [icon] (
BM
)
.
Generitype
of
Cerbera
Linnaeus.
Current name:
Cerbera mangas
L.
(
Apocynaceae
).
Note:
Cerbera manghas
, with
Herb. Linn. No. 298.2 (
LINN
)
as the type, was proposed as conserved type of the genus by Jarvis (in
Taxon
41: 560. 1992). However, the proposal was eventually ruled unnecessary by the General Committee (see Barrie,
l.c.
55: 795-796. 2006 for a review of the history of this and related proposals).
Huber's
(1973) type choice of a Hermann drawing, however, pre-dates that of 298.2 (LINN) by Leeuwenberg (in Jarvis,
l.c.
41: 560. 1992) and becomes the correct choice with the failure of the conservation proposal.