Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
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Achyranthes indica Mill.

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

Description

Achyranthes aspera Linnaeus var. indica Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 204. 1753.

RCN: 1654.

Type not designated.

Original material: Herb. Linn. No. 101.1 (S); Herb. Linn. No. 287.1 (LINN); [icon] in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 10, f. 4. 1691; Almag. Bot.: 26. 1696; [icon] in Burman, Thes. Zeylan.: 16, t. 5, f. 3. 1737.

Current name: Achyranthes indica (L.) Mill. (Amaranthaceae).

Note: Although some authors (e.g. Fawcett & Rendle, Fl. Jamaica 3: 136. 1914; Townsend in Polhill, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Amaranthaceae: 102. 1985) treat the type as from the Hermann herbarium (BM), and therefore homotypic with var. aspera L., var. indica has as the source of its diagnosis a Burman description and figure. In addition, although some authors treat A. indica (L.) Mill. as synonymous with A. aspera, others do not.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), pp. 252-342 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on pages 256-257, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN , S
Family
Amaranthaceae
Genus
Achyranthes
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
101.1 , 287.1
Order
Caryophyllales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Mill.
Species
indica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Achyranthes indica (Linnaeus, 1753) sec. Jarvis, 2007