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Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
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Clitoria ternatea Linnaeus 1753

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

Description

Clitoria ternatea Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 753. 1753.

"Habitat in India." RCN: 5366.

Lectotype (Wijnands, Bot. Commelins: 161. 1983): Herb. Clifford: 360, Clitoria 1 (BM-000646600).

Generitype of Clitoria Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 176. 1929).

Current name: Clitoria ternatea L. (Fabaceae: Faboideae).

Note: Fawcett & Rendle (Fl. Jamaica 4: 47. 1920) treated material in LINN and in Herb. Hermann (BM) as type. Verdcourt (in Milne-Redhead & Polhill, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Leguminosae 4: 515. 1971), followed by several other authors, indicated material in Herb. Hermann 3: 13, 20; 4: 49 (BM) as syntypes, but gave no indication of intending to lectotypify the name. Fantz (in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 67: 592. 1980) indicated 902.1 (LINN) as type but this lacks a Species Plantarum number (i.e. “1”), was a post-1753 addition to the herbarium, and is not original material for the name. Wijnands (who chose Clifford material) appears to have been the first to make an explicit type choice.

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
BM
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Clitoria
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
BM-000646600
Order
Fabales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
ternatea
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Clitoria ternatea Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007