Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part B)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
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London
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Bromelia ananas
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 285. 1753
.
"Habitat in nova Hispania, Surinamo." RCN: 2264.
Type not designated.
Original material: [icon] in Commelin, Hort. Med. Amstelod. Pl. Rar. 1: 109, t. 57. 1697; [icon] in Rheede, Hort. Malab. 11: 1, t. 1. 1692.
Current name:
Ananas comosus
(L.) Merr.
(
Bromeliaceae
).
Note:
Although Smith & Downs (in
Fl. Neotropica
14: 2062. 1979) stated that this is based on the
Hortus Clijfortianus
account, there are no relevant specimens preserved in the Clifford herbarium. While Ewan (in
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
78: 58. 1991) reproduced
Commelin's
cited t. 57 with the caption
"...
this drawing served as a basionym in the description of the pineapple by Linnaeus in the
Species Plantarum
in 1753", this is not a formal typification.