Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part S)
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
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Sisymbrium pyrenaicum
Linnaeus
,
Systema Naturae
, ed. 10, 2
: 1132. 1759
,
nom. illeg.
["Habitat in Pyrenaeis, Helveticis alpibus."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 916 (1763). RCN: 4779.
Lectotype
(
Lopez
Gonzalez
in
Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid
52: 102. 1994): Herb. Linn. No. 836.4 (
LINN
)
.
Current name:
Rorippa islandica
(Gunnerus)
Borbas
(
Brassicaceae
).
Note:
See extensive discussion on the correct name for this taxon by
Lopez
Gonzolez
(in
Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid
52: 102. 1994). He indicates 836.4 (LINN) as the
lectotype
, allegedly following Ball (in
Feddes Repert.
64: 14. 1962), and reproduces the Morison figure (as his f. 1 on p. 98). Although Ball discussed the identity of this sheet and the Allioni figure (probably
Rorippa pyrenaica
(All.) Rchb.
), he did not choose a type, concluding "As the name is illegitimate, the confusion and doubt as to the identity of this species does not have any serious nomenclatural consequences". It is illegitimate because it is a later homonym of
S. pyrenaicum
Loefl. (1758)
.