Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
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Lawsonia inermis Linnaeus 1753

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

Description

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.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L), pp. 610-650 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 617, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Lythraceae
Genus
Lawsonia
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Myrtales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
inermis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lawsonia inermis Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007