Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
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London
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Cynanchum aphyllum
Linnaeus
,
Systema Naturae
, ed. 12, 3
: 235. 1768
,
nom. illeg.
RCN: 1753.
Replaced synonym:
Euphorbia viminalis
L. (1753)
.
Lectotype
(Liede & Meve in
Bot. J. Linn. Soc.
112: 2, f. 1. 1993): [icon]
"Felfel Tavil, Piper longum Aegyptium"
in Alpino,
De Plantis Aegypti
: 190, t. 53. 1735. -
Epitype
(Liede & Meve in
Bot. J. Linn. Soc.
118: 47. 1995):
Bassi s.n.
Herb. Linn. No. 308.1 (
LINN
)
.
Current name:
Sarcostemma viminale
(L.) W.T. Aiton
(
Asclepiadaceae
).
Note:
A superfluous renaming of
Euphorbia viminalis
L.
The combination
C. viminale
, based on
E. viminalis
, was made by Bassi (in
Comment. Acad. Inst. Sci. Art. Bonon.
6: 17. 1768) and later taken up by Linnaeus (in
Mant. Pl. Alt.
: 392. 1771).