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
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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Loranthus occidentalis
Linnaeus
,
Systema Naturae
, ed. 10, 2
: 988. 1759
.
["Habitat in Americae arboribus."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 1: 473 (1762). RCN: 2562.
Type not designated.
Original material: [icon] in Sloane, Voy. Jamaica 2: 92, t. 200, f. 2. 1725 - Voucher:
Herb. Sloane 6: 108 (
BM-SL
)
.
Current name:
Oryctanthus occidentalis
(L.) Eichler
(
Loranthaceae
).
Note:
Kuijt (in
Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
95: 521. 1976) wrongly treated material in Herb. Sloane (6: 108, BM-SL) as the
holotype
, but this was not studied by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name.