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
Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
London
Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types
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book chapter
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Callitriche palustris
Linnaeus var.
bifida
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 969. 1753
.
RCN: 33.
Type not designated.
Original material: [icon] in Loesel, Fl. Prussica: 140, t. 38. 1703.
Current name:
Stellariasp.
(
Caryophyllaceae
).
Note:
Lansdown (in Lansdown & Jarvis,
Taxon
53: 170. 2004) notes that the cited Loesel illustration (which appears to be the only original material for the name) probably depicts a species of
Stellaria
(
Caryophyllaceae
), rather than a
Callitriche
(
Callitrichaceae
).