Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part D)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
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London
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Delphinium ajacis
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 531. 1753
.
"Habitat-
- -
-"
RCN: 3946.
Lectotype
(Molero &
Blanche
in
Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid
41: 217. 1984): Herb. Burser VII (1): 83 (
UPS
)
, see p. 197.
Current name:
Consolida ajacis
(L.) Schur
(
Ranunculaceae
).
Note:
Wilmott (in
J. Bot.
80: 17. 1942) identified material in LINN and the Clifford herbarium (BM) as
D. orientale
Gay
(
Consolida orientalis
(Gay)
Schroedinger
). Keener (in
Castanea
41: 15. 1976) reported that Wilmott had concluded that the name was typified by a Clifford sheet, quoting J.E. Dandy as saying that European botanists had generally rejected
D. ajacis
as a
nomen ambiguum
, taking up
D. ambiguum
L.
(
C. ambigua
(L.) P.W. Ball & Heywood
) as the name for the garden larkspur. However, no formal typification was made until Molero &
Blanche
designated a Burser collection, overlooked by earlier workers, as the
lectotype
, and again took up
C. ajacis
.