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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Conferva amphibia
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 1164. 1753
.
"Habitat in Europae udis, fossis, umbrosis, ubi aquae vicissitudines servant." RCN: 8379.
Type not designated.
Original material: [icon] in Dillenius, Hist. Musc.: 22, t. 4, f. 17. 1741.
Current name:
Vaucheria
sp.
(
Vaucheriaceae
).
Note:
For a discussion of the difficulties associated with this name, see Christensen (in
Brit. Phycol. Bull.
3: 466-467. 1968), who treated it as a "
species minus cognita
". The name may threaten
Vaucheria
dillwynii
(F. Weber & Mohr) C. Agardh and may be a candidate for rejection.