Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part H)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
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Hedysarum prostratum
Linnaeus
,
Systema Naturae
, ed. 12, 2
: 496;
Mantissa Plantarum
: 102. 1767
.
"Habitat in India." RCN: 5549.
Lectotype
(Rudd in Dassanayake & Fosberg,
Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon
7: 120. 1991): [icon] "
Hedysarum prostratum
" in Burman, Fl. Indica: 168, t. 55, f. 1. 1768.
Current name:
Indigofera linnaei
Ali
(
Fabaceae
:
Faboideae
).
Note:
Ali (in
Bot. Not.
111: 550. 1958) discussed this name, concluding (in Nasir & Ali,
Fl. W. Pakistan
100: 76. 1977) that the type was material in
Plukenet's
herbarium (Herb. Sloane 95: 186, BM). Although this choice was followed by several other authors, this collection was not seen by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name.