Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part R)
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
785
805
book chapter
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971
978-0-9506207-7-0
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Rhinanthus indicus
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 603. 1753
.
"Habitat in Zeylona." RCN: 4377.
Lectotype
(Cramer in Dassanayake & Fosberg,
Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon
3: 396. 1981): Herb. Hermann 2: 22, No. 238 (BM-000621584)
.
Current name:
Centranthera indica
(L.) Gamble
(
Scrophulariaceae
).
Note:
Specific epithet spelled
"indica"
in the protologue.
Although Cramer indicated the type in the Hermann herbarium (BM) as "Mus. No. 20", the only material that could have been intended is that in vol. 2: 22, comprising two closely associated specimens and this material is therefore accepted as the type.