Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
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Nyctanthes arbor

  • 1. Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK

Description

Nyctanthes arbor-tristis Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 6. 1753.

"Habitat in India." RCN: 38.

Type not designated.

Original material: [icon] in Rheede, Hort. Malab. 1: 35, t. 21. 1678.

Generitype of Nyctanthes Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock in Amer. J. Bot. 10: 514. 1923).

Current name: Nyctanthes arbor - tristis L. (Oleaceae).

Note: Moldenke & Moldenke (in Dassanayake & Fosberg, Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 4: 179. 1993) indicated "Grimm 116" (LINN) as type, but no such specimen (which in any case seems most unlikely to be an original element) has been traced.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part N), pp. 690-695 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 694, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Family
Oleaceae
Genus
Nyctanthes
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Lamiales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Species
arbor
Taxon rank
species