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
Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
London
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Achyranthes repens
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 205. 1753
.
"Habitat in Turcomannia." RCN: 1681.
Replaced synonym of:
Illecebrum achyranthum
L. (1762)
,
nom. illeg.
Type not designated.
Original material: [icon] in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 1: 8, t. 7, f. 7. 1732 -
Typotype
: Herb. Sherard (
OXF
)
.
Current name:
Alternanthera pungens
(L.) Kunth
(
Amaranthaceae
).
Note:
Melville (in
Kew Bull.
13: 173. 1958) designated a cultivated specimen in the Sherard herbarium (OXF) as the
holotype
but this would not have been seen by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name.