Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part F)
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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Ficus religiosa
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 1059. 1753
.
"Habitat in India." RCN: 7719.
Type not designated.
Original material:
Herb. Linn. No. 1240.6 (
LINN
)
;
Herb. Hermann 4: 40, No. 372 (
BM
)
;
Herb. Hermann 4: 82, No. 372 (
BM
)
; [icon] in Rheede, Hort. Malab. 1: 47, t. 27. 1678; [icon] in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 178, f. 2. 1692; Almag. Bot.: 144. 1696 - Voucher: Herb. Sloane 93: 160; 96: 33 (BM-SL).
Current name:
Ficus religiosa
L.
(
Moraceae
).
Note:
Although Browicz (in Rechinger,
Fl. Iranica
153: 13. 1982) indicated both 1240.4 and 1240.5 (LINN) as
"typus"
, both collections lack the relevant
Species Plantarum
number (i.e.
"3"
) and were post-1753 additions to the herbarium, and are not original material for the name.