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Centaurea jacea Linnaeus 1753

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

Description

Centaurea jacea Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 914. 1753.

"Habitat in Europa septentrionali." RCN: 6606.

Lectotype (Marsden-Jones & Turrill, Brit. Knapweeds: 14, pl. 2. 1954): Herb. Linn. No. 1030.36 (LINN).

Current name: Centaurea jacea L. (Asteraceae).

Note: Barbo & al. (in Taxon 47: 356. 1998) chose a Clifford sheet as type, unaware of the earlier choice made by Marsden-Jones & Turrill.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C), pp. 370-473 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 400, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Centaurea
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
1030.36
Order
Asterales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
jacea
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Centaurea jacea Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007