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
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London
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Asplenium erosum
Linnaeus
,
Systema Naturae
, ed. 10, 2
: 1324. 1759
.
["Habitat in
India
occidentali."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 1540 (1763). RCN: 7851.
Lectotype
(Underwood in
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
33: 196. 1906): [icon]
"Lonchitis major, pinnis angustioribus leviter denticulatis superiori latere auriculatis"
in Sloane, Voy. Jamaica 1: 78, t. 33, f. 2. 1707.
Current name:
Asplenium erosum
L.
(
Aspleniaceae
).
Note:
Underwood clearly designated the cited Sloane plate as the type, pre-dating the choice made by Weatherby (in
Contr. Gray Herb.
114: 20. 1936) of 1250.22 (LINN). Unfortunately,
Sloane's
plant appears to be identifiable as
A. auritum
Sw.
rather than
A. erosum
though most authors have adopted
Weatherby's
type choice. However,
Underwood's
choice has priority, and it appears that a proposal for the conservation of
A. erosum
, with a conserved type, may be necessary.