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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Adiantum reniforme
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 1094. 1753
.
"Habitat in Madera." RCN: 7921.
Lectotype
(Verdcourt in Beentje,
Fl. Trop. E. Africa,
Adiantaceae
: 52. 2002): [icon]
"Filix
Hemionitis
dicta Maderensis pediculis splendentibus nigris, crenatis foliis Asari rotundioribus crenarum segmentis oblongo quadratis, ob semina adnascentia per ambitum circumcirca reflexis"
in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 287. f. 5. 1694; Almag. Bot.: 155. 1696. -
Typotype
: Herb. Sloane 100: 51 (
BM-SL
)
.
Current name:
Adiantum reniforme
L.
(
Pteridaceae
).
Note:
See comments on the Plukenet figure and voucher by Francisco-Ortega & al. (in
Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. London (Bot.)
24: 12, f. 6, 7. 1994). Roux (
Consp. Southern African Pteridophyta:
77. 2001) indicated material in Herb. Sloane as the
lectotype
, but it was not studied by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name.