Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part G)
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
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Geranium prolificum
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
, ed. 2, 2
: 949. 1763
.
"Habitat ad Cap. b. spei." RCN: 4958.
Type not designated.
Original material: [icon] in Commelin, Hort. Med. Amstelod. Pl. Rar. 2: 125, t. 63. 1701.
Current name:
Pelargonium rapaceum
(L.)
L'Her
. (
Geraniaceae
).
Note:
This has been considered to be an illegitimate renaming of
G. rapaceum
L. (1759)
by some (e.g. Wijnands,
Bot. Commelins
: 109. 1983), although the phrase names are not particularly similar.