Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
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Galactia pendula Pers.

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

Description

Clitoria galactia (Linnaeus) Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 2: 1026. 1763.

"Habitat in Jamaica." RCN: 5371.

Basionym: Glycine galactia L. (1759).

Lectotype (Fortunato in Turland & Jarvis in Taxon 46: 470. 1997): Herb. Linn. No. 901.24 (LINN).

Current name: Galactia pendula Pers. (Fabaceae: Faboideae).

Note: Fawcett & Rendle (Fl. Jamaica 4: 55. 1920) treated material in Sloane’s herbarium (BM-SL) as the type, but this was not seen by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name.

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 428, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Galactia
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
901.24
Order
Fabales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Pers.
Species
pendula
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype