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
978-0-9506207-7-0
291971
Amomum zerumbet
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 1. 1753
.
"Habitat in
India
." RCN: 5.
Type not designated.
Original material:
Herb. Hermann 5: 94, No. 2 [icon] (
BM
)
;
Herb. Clifford: 3,
Amomum
2, 3 sheets (
BM
)
; [icon] in Hermann, Hort. Lugd.-Bat. Cat.: 636, 637. 1687.
Current name:
Zingiber zerumbet
(L.) Sm.
(
Zingiberaceae
).
Note:
Thielade (in
Gard. Bull. Singapore
48: 228. 1998) wrongly designated material at K as
lectotype
, the existence of original material precluding the designation of what would be a
neotype
(Art. 9.11).