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
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London
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Gleditsia inermis
Linnaeus
,
Systema Naturae
, ed. 10, 2
: 1313. 1759
.
["Habitat in Java."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 1509 (1763). RCN: 7697.
Type not designated.
Original material: [icon] in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 123, f. 3. 1692; Almag. Bot.: 6. 1696 -
Typotype
: Herb. Sloane 95: 7 (
BM-SL
)
.
Current name:
Acacia
sp
. (
Fabaceae
:
Mimosoideae
).
Note:
Bunting (in
Taxon
16: 469. 1967) and
Hernandez
& Nicolson (in
Taxon
35: 747. 1986) discussed the basis for this name, the only original element for which is a Plukenet illustration of a single leaf, the identification of which is uncertain. It is a species of
Acacia
(Lourdes Rico, pers. comm.) and, if from Java, may represent
A. leucophloea
(Roxb.) Willd.