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
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342
book chapter
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971
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Aeschynomene indica
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 713. 1753
.
"Habitat in
India
." RCN: 5490.
Lectotype
(Verdcourt in Milne-Redhead & Polhill,
Fl. Trop. E. Africa,
Leguminosae
3: 373. 1971): [icon]
"Neli-tali"
in Rheede, Hort. Malab. 9: 31, t. 18. 1689.
Current name:
Aeschynomene indica
L.
(
Fabaceae
:
Faboideae
).
Note:
Although Rudd (in
Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb.
32: 59. 1955) says that the type specimen is unknown and that
Rheede's
9: t. 18
"...
presumably, represents the type", her uncertainty makes this difficult to accept as a formal typification, but Verdcourt clearly formalised this choice.