Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L)
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
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971
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Lawsonia inermis
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 349. 1753
.
"Habitat in
India, Aegypto.
" RCN: 2697.
Type not designated.
Original material: [icon] in Rheede, Hort. Malab. 4: 117, t. 57. 1683; [icon] in Walther, Design. Pl.: 3, t. 4. 1735.
Generitype
of
Lawsonia
Linnaeus
(vide Hitchcock,
Prop. Brit. Bot.
: 150. 1929).
Current name:
Lawsonia inermis
L.
(
Lythraceae
).
Note:
Dar (in Nasir & Ali,
Fl. W. Pakistan
78: 5. 1975) and a number of later authors have treated 496.1 (LINN) as the type. However, the material is a post-1753 addition to the collection and not original material for the name.