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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Alyssum gemonense
Linnaeus
,
Systema Naturae
, ed. 12, 2
: 437;
Mantissa Plantarum
: 92. 1767
,
nom. illeg.
RCN: 4741.
Type not designated.
Original material:
Herb. Linn. No. 828.21 (
LINN
)
; [icon] in Arduino, Animadv. Bot. Spec. Alt.: 30, t. 14. 1764.
Current name:
Aurinia petraea
(Ard.) Schur (
Brassicaceae
).
Note:
In the protologue, Linnaeus referred to
"Alyssum"
from "Ard. Spec. 2. p. t. 10". No page number was given, but t. 10 in
Animadv. Bot. Spec. Alt.
(1764) is an
Arenaria
.
However,
Linnaeus'
diagnosis is a close match for the text on p. 30, and the illustration at t. 14, both associated with
Alyssum petraeum
Ard., a valid binomial. Ball & Dudley (in Turin & al.,
Fl. Europaea
1: 299. 1964) have treated the two names as synonymous, and
A. gemonense
appears to be illegitimate.