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
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Agaricus violaceus
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 1173. 1753
.
"Habitat ad margines Sylvarum." RCN: 8446.
Type not designated.
Original material: [icon] in Buxbaum, Pl. Minus Cognit. Cent. 4: 7, t. 11. 1733; [icon] in Micheli, Nov. Pl. Gen.: 149, t. 74, f. 1. 1729.
Current name:
Cortinarius violaceus
(L.: Fr.) Gray (
Cortinariaceae
).
Note:
Brandrud (in
Nordic J. Bot.
3: 587. 1983) selected Herb. Moser 74/208 (S) from Sweden (Halland) as a
neotype
, but original elements are in existence which, under Art. 9.11, preclude the selection of a
neotype
.