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
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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Canna indica
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 1. 1753
.
"Habitat inter tropicos Asiae, Africae, Americae." RCN: 1.
Lectotype
(Maas in Jarvis & al.,
Regnum Veg.
127: 29. 1993): Herb. A. van Royen No. 912.356-390 (
L
)
.
Generitype
of
Canna
Linnaeus
(vide Hitchcock,
Prop. Brit. Bot.
: 114. 1929).
Current name:
Canna indica
L.
(
Cannaceae
).
Note:
Siddiqi (in Jafri & El-Gadi,
Fl. Libya
74: 2. 1970) indicated
Herb. Linn. 1.1 (
LINN
)
as type but this collection is a post-1753 addition to the collection and ineligible as type. It is superseded by
Maas'
type choice.