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
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Cliffortia polygonifolia
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 1038. 1753
.
"Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 7496.
Lectotype
(Stearn,
Introd.
Linnaeus'
Sp. Pl.
(Ray Soc. ed.): 47. 1957): [icon] "
Cliffortia
foliis linearibus pilosis
:
Femina
" in Linnaeus, Hort. Cliff.: 501, t. 32. 1738. - Voucher:
Herb. Clifford: 501,
Cliffortia
3 (
BM
)
.
Generitype
of
Cliffortia
Linnaeus
(vide Green,
Prop. Brit. Bot.
: 192. 1929).
Current name:
Cliffortia polygonifolia
L.
(
Rosaceae
).
Note:
Oliver & Fellingham (in Jarvis & al.,
Regnum Veg.
127: 35. 1993) designated a Clifford sheet as
lectotype
, but this choice is pre-dated by that of Stearn. Weimarck (
Monogr
:
Cliffortia
: 83. 1934) noted the
Hort. Cliff.
illustration as "a good figure" adding "the type specimen has disappeared".