Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part E)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
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London
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Euphorbia verrucosa
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 459. 1753
.
"Habitat in Gallia, Helvetia." RCN: 3542.
Type not designated.
Original material:
Herb. Linn. No. 630.54? (
LINN
)
;
Herb. Burser XVI(2): 38 (
UPS
)
.
Current name:
Euphorbia verrucosa
L.
(
Euphorbiaceae
).
Note:
Khan (in
Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh
25: 103. 1964) used the name in the sense of
E. pubescens
Vahl
, based on 630.51 (LINN). Dandy (in
Watsonia
7: 163. 1969) rejected the name as ambiguous, though Riedl (in
Taxon
19: 798. 1970) argued for its retention. Lambinon (in
Taxon
30: 363. 1981) proposed its formal rejection but this was declined by the Committee for Spermatophyta (in
Taxon
35: 559. 1986), partly because 630.51 was a post-1753 addition to
Linnaeus'
collection and cannot be the type of the name.