Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part B)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
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London
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Boerhavia erecta
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 3. 1753
.
"Habitat in Vera Cruce." RCN: 17.
Neotype
(Fawcett & Rendle,
Fl. Jamaica
3: 148. 1914): Herb. Linn. No. 9.1 (
LINN
)
.
Current name:
Boerhavia erecta
L.
(
Nyctaginaceae
).
Note:
This was treated as the
generitype
of
Boerhavia
by Standley (in
Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb.
12: 375. 1909). However, under Art. 10.5, Ex. 7 (a voted example) of the Vienna Code, this is a type choice made under the American Code and is to be replaced under Art. 10.5b by
Hitchcock's
choice
(Prop. Brit. Bot.
: 115. 1929) of
B. diffusa
L.
Gilbert (in Jarvis & al,
Regnum Veg.
127: 25. 1993) formally designated 9.1 (LINN) as a
neotype
. However, under Art. 9.8, earlier choices of this post-1753 sheet as
lectotype
are to be corrected, and that of Fawcett & Rendle appears to be the earliest.