Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A)
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
252
342
book chapter
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971
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Allamanda cathartica
Linnaeus
,
Mantissa Plantarum Altera
: 146, 214. 1771
.
"Habitat per totam Guianam, juxta fluvios." RCN: 1710.
Neotype
(Leeuwenberg in Jarvis & al.,
Regnum Veg.
127: 16. 1993): Herb. Linn. No. 298.1 (
LINN
)
.
Generitype
of
Allamanda
Linnaeus.
Current name:
Allamanda cathartica
L.
(
Apocynaceae
).
Note:
Linnaeus spelled the generic name
"Allamanda"
in
Mant. Pl. Altera
: 146, where its description appears, but on p. 214 of the same work,
A. cathartica
was described, with the genus spelled
"Allemanda"
.