Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P)
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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Parietaria officinalis
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 1052. 1753
.
"Habitat in Europae temperatioris ruderatis." RCN: 7606.
Lectotype
(Paclt in
Phyton
(
Horn
) 4: 48, f. 1 (left). 1952): Herb. Clifford: 469,
Parietaria
1, sheet A (BM-000647535)
.
Generitype
of
Parietaria
Linnaeus
(vide Green,
Prop. Brit. Bot
.: 193. 1929).
Current name:
Parietaria officinalis
L.
(
Urticaceae
).
Note:
Townsend (in
Watsonia
6: 365-370. 1968) rejected
Paclt's
designation in favour of 1220.2 (LINN), arguing that Linnaeus did not have
Clifford's
herbarium available to him when writing
Species Plantarum
and that the description was arguably based on the LINN sheet. However, the Clifford material is clearly original material for the name, despite the probable role of the LINN specimen;
Paclt's
choice has priority and is accepted here with his use of
"
holotype
"
treated as a correctable error under Art. 9.8.