Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
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London
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Lapsana rhagadiolus
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 812. 1753
.
"Habitat in Oriente." RCN: 5917.
Lectotype
(Turland in Jarvis & Turland in
Taxon
47: 364. 1998): Herb. Linn. No. 960.4 (
LINN
)
.
Current name:
Rhagadiolus stellatus
(L.) Gaertn.
(
Asteraceae
).
Note:
Kupicha (in Davis,
Fl. Turkey
6: 688. 1975) and Meikle (in
Taxon
28: 136. 1979) indicated
Herb. Linn. No. 330.3 (
S
)
as type, but this sheet lacks a
Species Plantarum
number (i.e.
"4"
) and was a later addition to the herbarium. It is not original material for the name. The
lectotype
designated by Turland is a specimen of
Rhagadiolus stellatus
, into the synonymy of which
L. rhagadiolus
therefore falls.
Linnaeus'
name has generally been treated as a synonym of
R. edulis
Gaertn.
(which is often not recognised as distinct from
R. stellatus
), but the present choice of type is not disruptive as the specific epithet
"rhagadiolus"
cannot in any case be used in
Rhagadiolus
.