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Sphaerophorus fragilis Pers.

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

Description

Lichen fragilis Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1154. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae alpibus alpinisque, per Sueciam in rupibus." RCN: 8243.

Lectotype (Howe in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 39: 201. 1912; Wedin in Pl. Syst. Evol. 187: 229, f. 2. 1993): Herb. Linn. No. 1273.261, uppermost specimen (LINN).

Current name: Sphaerophorus fragilis (L.) Pers. (Sphaerophoraceae).

Note: See review by Jørgensen & al. (in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 115: 312-313, f. 32. 1994). Howe’s original type choice was subsequently restricted to one specimen by Wedin.

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 626, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN
Family
Sphaerophoraceae
Genus
Sphaerophorus
Kingdom
Fungi
Material sample ID
1273.261
Order
Lecanorales
Phylum
Ascomycota
Scientific name authorship
Pers.
Species
fragilis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Sphaerophorus fragilis (Linnaeus, 1753) sec. Jarvis, 2007