Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part S)
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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Solanum mammosum
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 187. 1753
.
"Habitat in Virginia, Barbados." RCN: 1479.
Lectotype
(Knapp & Jarvis in
Bot. J. Linn. Soc.
104: 344, f. 13. 1990): [icon]
"
Solanum Barbadense
spinosum, foliis villosis, fructu aureo rotundiore, Pyri parvi inversi forma et magnitudine"
in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 226, f. 1. 1692; Almag. Bot.: 350. 1696. -
Typotype
: Herb. Sloane 98: 59 (
BM-SL
)
.
Current name:
Solanum mammosum
L.
(
Solanaceae
).
Note:
As noted by Knapp & Jarvis, 248.32 (LINN) is a post-1753 Browne collection and not original material for the name, so its treatment as the type by Symon (in
J. Adelaide Bot. Gard.
4: 103. 1981) and others is erroneous.