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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Chironia jasminoides
Linnaeus
,
Plantae Rariores Africanae
: 9. 1760
.
["Habitat ad Cap. b. spei."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 1: 272 (1762). RCN: 1514.
Type not designated.
Original material:
Herb. Burman, 3 sheets (
G
)
.
Current name:
Chironia jasminoides
L.
(
Gentianaceae
).
Note:
Marais & Verdoorn (in Dyer & al.,
Fl. Southern Africa
26: 224. 1963) stated that the type was "based on
Burmann's
specimens from the Cape, seen by Linnaeus and evidently not preserved but specimens in
Burmann's
herbarium fit the description".