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
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London
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Cactus grandiflorus
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 467. 1753
.
"Habitat in Jamaica, Vera Cruce." RCN: 3579.
Lectotype
(Lourteig in
Bradea
5: 406. 1991): Herb. Clifford: 182,
Cactus
10 (BM-000628597)
.
Current name:
Selenicereus grandiflorus
(L.) Britton & Rose
(
Cactaceae
).
Note:
Benson (
Cacti U.S. Canada
: 935. 1982) indicated 633.1 (LINN) as type but this collection lacks the relevant
Species Plantarum
number (i.e.
"11"
) and was a post-1753 addition to the herbarium, and is not original material for the name. See Hunt (in
Bradleya
7: 95. 1989) who gives an extensive review of the original elements, and reproduces (p. 96) the striking illustration of Volckamer. Heath (in
Calyx
2: 76. 1992) wrongly rejected
Lourteig's
type choice as ineligible, erroneously arguing that the Volckamer plate is the
holotype
.