Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
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Limeum africanum Linnaeus 1759

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

Description

Limeum africanum Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 995. 1759.

["Habitat in Aethiopia."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 1: 489 (1762). RCN: 2640.

Neotype (Jeffrey in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 61. 1993): Garcin 11, Herb. Burman (G).

Generitype of Limeum Linnaeus.

Current name: Limeum africanum L. (Molluginaceae).

Note: Friedrich in Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 2: 139. 1955) stated "Typus speciei: Burmann s.Nr. LINN". Although there are two sheets in LINN (477.1, 477.2), they are annotated only by Linnaeus filius, and give no indication of any link with Burman. Consequently they are later additions to the collection and are not original material for the name. They do not appear to be part of the same collection so Art. 9.15 does not apply. Jeffrey has designated a collection in Burman’s herbarium (G) as a neotype.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L), pp. 610-650 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 633, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
G
Family
Limeaceae
Genus
Limeum
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Caryophyllales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
africanum
Taxon rank
species
Type status
neotype
Taxonomic concept label
Limeum africanum Linnaeus, 1759 sec. Jarvis, 2007