Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
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London
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Calophyllum calaba
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 514. 1753
.
"Habitat in Indiis." RCN: 3869.
Lectotype
(Stevens in Jarvis & ah.,
Regnum Veg.
127: 28. 1993): Herb. Hermann 3: 3, No. 202 (BM-000621800)
.
Generitype
of
Calophyllum
Linnaeus
(vide Green,
Prop. Brit. Bot.
: 161. 1929).
Current name:
Calophyllum calaba
L.
(
Clusiaceae
).
Note:
Furtado (in
Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem.
11: 258-260. 1941), followed by Howard (in
J. Arnold Arbor.
43: 397. 1962), argued that the name should be applied to the New World element but did not typify the name.
D'Arcy
& Keating (in
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
66: 563. 1969), followed by Lourteig & Fosberg (in
Phytologia
57: 153-155, f. 1. 1985), designated Plumier,
Nov. Amer. Gen
.: t. 18 (1703) as
lectotype
but this illustration does not form part of the protologue, so is ineligible. Kostermans (in Dassanayake & Fosberg,
Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon
1: 96. 1980) indicated Clifford material (BM, unseen by him and apparently not preserved) as the type. Stevens in
J
.
Arnold Arbor.
61: 256. 1980) indicated the several specimens in Herb. Hermann (1: 65; 2: 42, 52; 3: 3, BM) as syntypes, also providing an extensive discussion of the problem in Manilal (
Bot. Hist. Hort. Malab.
: 168-176. 1980). Stevens (in Jarvis & ah.,
Regnum Veg
127: 28. 1993) subsequently made an explicit choice of the material in
Herb. Hermann 3: 3 (
BM
)
as the
lectotype
.