Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part S)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
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London
Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types
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Solidago canadensis
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 878. 1753
.
"Habitat in Virginia, Canada." RCN: 6347.
Lectotype
(Reveal & al. in
Huntia
7: 238. 1987): Herb. Linn. No. 998.2 (
LINN
)
.
Current name:
Solidago canadensis
L. var.
canadensis
(
Asteraceae
).
Note:
Gray (in
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
17: 177. 1882), in a study of the
Solidago
material in the Linnaean herbarium, noted the existence of two sheets, one of which (998.2 LINN) was identifiable as
S
.
canadensis
, and the other (998.3 LINN) as
S. rugosa
Mill. Gray
added that the cited Plukenet element should be excluded from the species (a view with which Mackenzie (in
Rhodora
29: 74. 1927) disagreed) but did not explicitly indicate a type. Taylor & Taylor (in
Sida
10: 230. 1984) indicated unspecified material in LINN as type (i.e. not distinguishing between 998.2 and 998.3), and Reveal & al. (in
Huntia
7: 238. 1987) followed
Gray's
conclusion and formally designated 998.2 (LINN) as
lectotype
.