Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part O)
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
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Olyra latifolia
Linnaeus
,
Systema Naturae
, ed. 10, 2
: 1261. 1759
.
["Habitat in Jamaica."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 1379. 1763. RCN: 7053.
Lectotype
(Jarvis & al.,
Regnum Veg.
127: 70. 1993): [icon] "
Gramen paniceum majus, spica simplici laevi, granis petiolis insidentibus"
in Sloane, Voy. Jamaica 1: 107, t. 64, f. 2. 1707. -
Typotype
: Herb. Sloane 2: 7 (
BM-SL
)
.
Generitype
of
Olyra
Linnaeus.
Current name:
Olyra latifolia
L.
(
Poaceae
).
Note:
Hitchcock (in
Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb.
12: 124. 1908) indicated
Sloane's
specimen (HS 2: 7, BM-SL) as the type. Despite its close association with the published illustration, Linnaeus did not see the material and it is not original material for the name. Subsequently, Hitchcock (in
Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb.
17: 269. 1913) referred to "the type specimen collected by Browne" but without indicating where it was located. Formal typification on
Sloane's
illustration was effected in Jarvis & al.