Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part D)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
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London
Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types
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Dracocephalum grandiflorum
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 595. 1753
.
"Habitat in Sibiria." RCN: 4320.
Lectotype
(Budantzev in Jarvis & al. in
Taxon
50: 511. 2001):
Gmelin s.n.
, Herb. Linn. No. 746.8 (
LINN
)
.
Current name:
Dracocephalum grandiflorum
L.
(
Lamiaceae
).
Note:
Tscherneva (in Grubov & al.,
Pl. C. Asia
5: 48-49. 2002) stated "Type in London (Linn.)" and cited Keenan (in
Baileya
5: 33. 1957) as saying there are three collections in LINN. Two of these were reported to be
"typical"
(the third is supposed to be
D. stellerianum
Hiltebr.
), which Tscherneva stated "were evidently collected from Barguzin and should be treated as type of
D. grandiflorum
L.
". Keenan regarded all three as conspecific, but 746.8 (from Gmelin) as the atypical one of the three (with smaller flowers and entire bracts) from which "Linnaeus obviously drew his description". However, neither author made a statement clearly designating any one of these collections as the type.