Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part H)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
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London
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Holosteum umbellatum
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 88. 1753
.
"Habitat in Germaniae, Galliae arvis." RCN: 741.
Lectotype
(Jonsell & Jarvis in Jarvis & al.,
Regnum Veg.
127: 54. 1993): Herb. Bergius, sheet bearing "4 umbellatum", lower specimen (
SBT
)
.
Generitype
of
Holosteum
Linnaeus
(vide Hitchcock,
Prop. Brit. Bot.
: 122. 1929).
Current name:
Holosteum umbellatum
L.
(
Caryophyllaceae
).
Note:
Although Ghazanfar & Nasir (in Nasir & Ali,
Fl. Pakistan
175: 33. 1986) indicated syntypes in SBT and UPS, they made no effective type choice. Jonsell & Jarvis (in
Nordic J. Bot.
14: 157. 1994) provided further information on their own formal (1993) type choice.