Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
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London
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Primula veris
Linnaeus var.
elatior
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 143. 1753
.
RCN: 1150.
Type not designated.
Original material:
Herb. Burser XIII: 138 (
UPS
)
; [icon] in Clusius, Rar. Pl. Hist. 1: 301. 1601.
Current name:
Primula elatior
(L.) Hill
(
Primulaceae
).
Note:
Greuter (in
Candollea
44: 1989) argues that this is the basionym of a new combination,
P. elatior
(L.) L.,
Fl. Anglica
(1754)
, which is the correct form of the more usual
P. elatior
(L.) Hill (1765)
, for the oxlip. However, this is disputed by Brummitt & Meikle (in
Watsonia
19: 183-184. 1993), who argued that there is variability in the typography of different versions of the thesis. They argue that the correct name remains
P. elatior
(L.) Hill.