Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part T)
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
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971
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Trichomanes tunbrigense
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 1098. 1753
.
"Habitat in Anglia, Italia." RCN: 7949.
Type not designated.
Original material:
Herb. Linn. No. 1253.4 (
LINN
)
; [icon] in Plukenet, Phytographia: 10, t. 3, f. 5, 6. 1691; Almag. Bot.: 10. 1696; [icon] in Boccone, Mus. Piante Rar. Sicilia: 24, t. 2. 1697.
Current name:
Hymenophyllum tunbrigense
(L.) Sm.
(
Hymenophyllaceae
).
Note:
Evans & Jermy (in
Brit. Fern Gaz.
9: 84. 1962) stated that Linnaeus based his concept on an English plant (meaning 1253.5 LINN?), but Proctor (
Ferns Jamaica
: 90. 1985) noted that 1253.5 (LINN) was a post-1753 addition to the herbarium and so cannot be the type.