Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P)
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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Phyllanthus epiphyllanthus
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 981. 1753
.
"Habitat in America calidiore, Surinamo, Jamaica, Carolina, Porto Rico." RCN: 2152.
Replaced synonym of:
Xylophylla latifolia
L. (1771)
,
nom. illeg
.
Lectotype
(Webster in
J. Arnold Arbor
. 37: 2. 1956): Herb. Clifford: 439,
Phyllanthus
1 (BM-000647366)
.
Current name:
Phyllanthus epiphyllanthus
L.
(
Euphorbiaceae
).
Note:
Merrill (
Interpret. Rumph. Herb. Amb.:
208. 1917) indicated a Rumphius element as the type but, although it appears in a 1759 account of the species, it is not cited in the protologue and is therefore not original material for the name.