Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
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Melanohalea olivacea O. Blanco

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

Description

Lichen olivaceus Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1143. 1753, nom. cons.

"Habitat in Europae rupibus. arboreus & rupestris." RCN: 8185.

Conserved type (Jørgensen & al. in Taxon 43: 652. 1994): Sweden. Härjedalen, Fjellnäs, Vrang in Crypt. Exsicc. Mus. Hist. Nat. Vindob. No. 3063 (UPS).

Current name: Melanohalea olivacea (L.) O. Blanco & al. (Parmeliaceae).

Note: Howe (in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 37: 201. 1912) typified the name on 1273.66 (LINN), a collection of Parmelia pulla Ach. (see review by Jørgensen & al. in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 115: 332, 378, f. 45. 1994). The same authors successfully proposed the name for conservation with a conserved type.

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 628, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Family
Parmeliaceae
Genus
Melanohalea
Kingdom
Fungi
Order
Lecanorales
Phylum
Ascomycota
Scientific name authorship
O. Blanco
Species
olivacea
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Melanohalea olivacea (Linnaeus, 1753) sec. Jarvis, 2007