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Lotus corniculatus Linnaeus 1753

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

Description

Lotus corniculatus Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 775. 1753.

"Habitat in Europa." RCN: 5699.

Lectotype (Chrtková-Zertová in Rozpr. Cesk. Akad. Ved., Mat. Prír. 83(4): 28, f. 3. 1973): Herb. Linn. No. 931.23 (LINN).

Generitype of Lotus Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 177. 1929).

Current name: Lotus corniculatus L. (Fabaceae: Faboideae).

Note: Heyn (in Davis, Fl. Turkey 3: 526. 1970) indicated non-fruiting material in the Clifford herbarium as type, but did not distinguish between the two sheets (Herb. Clifford: 372, Lotus 6A; 6B) preserved there. As they are evidently not part of the same gathering, Art. 9.15 does not apply. Chrtková-Zertová (in Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 75: 34. 1971) identified this material as L. uliginosus Schkuhr, and subsequently (1973) made an explicit type choice.

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 642, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Lotus
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
931.23
Order
Fabales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
corniculatus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Lotus corniculatus Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007