Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M)
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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Mesembryanthemum expansum
Linnaeus
,
Systema Naturae
, ed. 10, 2
: 1059. 1759
.
["Habitat ad Cap. b. spei."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 1: 697 (1762). RCN: 3675.
Lectotype
(designated here by Hartmann): [icon] "
Mesembryanthemum tortuosum
, foliis Sempervivi expansis
" in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 2: 234, t. 182, f. 223. 1732.
Current name:
Sceletium expansum
(L.) L. Bolus
(
Aizoaceae
).
Note:
Gerbaulet (in Hartmann,
Ill. Handb. Succ. Pl.,
Aizoaceae
F-Z
: 289. 2001) indicated material in K (ex Herb. Dillenius, OXF) as
lectotype
but this was not studied by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name.