Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
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London
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Agrostis stolonifera
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 62. 1753
.
"Habitat in Europa." RCN: 539.
Lectotype
(
Widen
,
Fl. Fennica
5: 77, f. 28. 1971): Herb. A. van Royen No. 912.356-55 (
L
)
.
Current name:
Agrostis stolonifera
L.
(
Poaceae
).
Note:
Hitchcock (in
Bot. Gaz.
38: 141. 1904;
U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Ind. Bull.
68: 24. 1905) treated 84.20 (LINN) as the type but the sheet lacks a
Species Plantarum
number (i.e.
"7"
), was a post-1753 addition to the herbarium and is not original material for the name. Philipson (in
J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
51: 95. 1937) rejected the material from consideration while Breistroffer (in
Bull. Soc. Bot. France
, 1963 (89th Sess. Extr.): 57. 1966) said the name should be treated as a
nomen ambiguum.
Widen
(
Fl. Fennica
5: 508. 1967) rejected
Hitchcock's
type choice in favour of van Royen material which he designated as
lectotype
. There is further discussion by Kurchenko (in
Bot. Zhurn.
87(5): 115-119. 2002).