Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A)
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
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971
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Acrostichum heterophyllum
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 1067. 1753
.
"Habitat in Malabaria, Zeylona, Africa." RCN: 7767.
Lectotype
(Sledge in
Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot.
2: 135. 1960): Herb. Hermann 3: 57; 4: 29, No. 378 (BM-000628016).
Current name:
Pyrrosia heterophylla
(L.) M.G. Price
(
Polypodiaceae
).
Note:
In designating a type, Sledge did not distinguish between the material mounted in volumes 3 and 4 of the Hermann herbarium. However, as the material appears to be part of a single gathering, Art. 9.15 applies and this is accepted as a formal typification.