Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C)
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
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971
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Corchorus capsularis
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 529. 1753
.
"Habitat in India." RCN: 3933.
Lectotype
(Robyns & Meijer in Dassanayake & Fosberg,
Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon
7: 420. 1991): Herb. Hermann 5: 261, No. 214 [icon] (
BM
)
.
Current name:
Corchorus capsularis
L.
(
Tiliaceae
).
Note:
Ghafoor (in Nasir & Ali,
Fl. W. Pakistan
75: 29. 1974) indicated 691.3 (LINN) as the type but this collection lacks the relevant
Species Plantarum
number (i.e.
"3"
) and was a post-1753 addition to the herbarium, and is not original material for the name.