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Allium cepa Linnaeus 1753

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

Description

Allium cepa Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 300. 1753.

"Habitat - - - –” RCN: 2376.

Lectotype (de Wilde-Duyfjes in Taxon 22: 64. 1973): Herb. A. van Royen No. 908.105-610 (L).

Current name: Allium cepa L. (Liliaceae / Alliaceae).

Note: Although de Wilde-Duyfjes treated her chosen type as a neotype, the van Royen material is original material for the name and so is a lectotype (Art. 9.8).

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), pp. 252-342 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 276, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
L
Family
Amaryllidaceae
Genus
Allium
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
908.105-610
Order
Asparagales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
cepa
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Allium cepa Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007