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Persicaria hydropiper Spach

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

Description

Polygonum hydropiper Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 361. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae subhumidis." RCN: 2859.

Lectotype (Bhopal & Chaudhri in Pakistan Syst. 1(2): 76. 1977): Herb. Linn. No. 510.9 (LINN).

Current name: Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Spach (Polygonaceae).

Note: Ekman & Knutsson (in Nordic J. Bot. 14: 24. 1994) assessed the identities of the original material for this name and designated Herb. Clifford: 42, Persicaria 4 (BM) as lectotype, a choice that maintained the traditional usage of the name. They noted that 510.9 (LINN), part of the original material, was identifiable as Persicaria minor (Huds.) Opiz, but were unaware that Bhopal & Chaudhri had already designated this collection as the type. If this identification is confirmed, P. hydropiper would seem likely to be a candidate for conservation.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P), pp. 718-782 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 757, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Collection code
LINN
Family
Polygonaceae
Genus
Persicaria
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
510.9
Order
Polygonales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Spach
Species
hydropiper
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Persicaria hydropiper (Linnaeus, 1753) sec. Jarvis, 2007