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Digitalis purpurea Linnaeus 1753

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

Description

Digitalis purpurea Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 621. 1753.

"Habitat in Europa australiore." RCN: 4499.

Lectotype (D’Arcy in Woodson & Schery in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 66: 216. 1979): Herb. Linn. No. 775.1 (LINN).

Generitype of Digitalis Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 168. 1929).

Current name: Digitalis purpurea L. (Scrophulariaceae).

Note: Hinz (in Candollea 42: 168. 1987) also accepted 775.1 (LINN) as type, illustrating it as her f. 1.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part D), pp. 474-489 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 480, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN
Family
Scrophulariaceae
Genus
Digitalis
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
775.1
Order
Lamiales
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
purpurea
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Digitalis purpurea Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007