Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part E)
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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Euphorbia heterophylla
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 453. 1753
.
"Habitat in America calidiore." RCN: 3504.
Lectotype
(Radcliffe-Smith in Bosser & al.,
Fl. Mascareignes
160: 94. 1982): [icon]
"Tithymalus Curassavicus, Salicis & Atriplicis foliis variis, caulibus viridantibus"
in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 112, f. 6. 1691; Almag. Bot.: 369. 1696. -
Typotype
: Herb. Sloane 98: 108 (
BM-SL
)
, see p. 149.
Current name:
Euphorbia heterophylla
L.
(
Euphorbiaceae
).
Note:
Dressler (in
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
48: 332. 1961) noted the absence of any material at LINN and interpreted the name via the Plukenet plate, though without expressly treating it as the type.