Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part T)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
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London
Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types
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Tagetes patula
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 887. 1753
.
"Habitat in Mexico." RCN: 6417.
Lectotype
(Hind in Jarvis & al.,
Regnum Veg.
127: 92. 1993): Herb. Linn. No. 1009.1 (
LINN
)
.
Current name:
Tagetes patula
L.
(
Asteraceae
).
Note:
Tagetes patula
was treated as the
generitype
by Rydberg (
N
.
Amer. Fl.
34: 149. 1915; see McNeill & al. in
Taxon
36: 386. 1987). However, under Art. 10.5, Ex. 7 (a voted example) of the Vienna Code, this is a type choice made under the American Code and is to be replaced under Art. 10.5b by
Green's
choice (
Prop. Brit. Bot.
: 182. 1929) of
T. erecta
L.
Moore (in Fawcett & Rendle,
Fl. Jamaica
7: 262. 1936) noted the existence of material in the Clifford herbarium but did not designate a type.