Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part J)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
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London
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Jungermannia pusilla
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 1136. 1753
.
"Habitat in Europae rupibus, ericetis humentibus." RCN: 8138.
Lectotype
(Isoviita in
Acta Bot. Fenn.
89: 22. 1970): [icon] "
Lichenastrum
exiguum, capitulis nigris lucidis, e cotylis parvis nascentibus
" in Dillenius, Hist. Musc.: 513, t. 74, f. 46. 1741. - Voucher:
Herb. Dillenius (
OXF
)
. -
Epitype
(Stotler & Crandall-Stotler in
J. Bryol.
27: 73, f. 1D, E, F. 2005): Herb. Dillenius [sheet] CLXIII, n. 46.
L. exiguum, capitulis nigris lucidis
, etc., as
Jungermannia pusilla
(OXF).
Current name:
Fossombronia pusilla
(L.) Nees
(
Codoniaceae
).
Note:
See Stotler & Crandall-Stotler (in
J. Bryol.
27: 71-73. 2005) who provide a detailed analysis of the typification of this name, reproducing the protologue (f. 1A) and, like Isoviita, treat the Dillenius plate (illustrated as f. 1C) as the
lectotype
. They also designate an
epitype
from the Dillenian herbarium, illustrating it (f. 1D, E) and reproducing an SEM image of a spore taken from it.