Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
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Aspalathus corrudifolia P. J. Bergius

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

Description

Aspalathus genistoides Linnaeus, Mantissa Plantarum Altera: 261. 1771.

"Habitat ad Cap. b. spei, e fissuris rupium." RCN: 5225.

Lectotype (Schrire in Turland & Jarvis in Taxon 46: 463. 1997): Tulbagh 29, ex Herb. Linn. (BM).

Current name: Aspalathus corrudifolia P.J. Bergius (Fabaceae: Faboideae).

Note: Dahlgren (in Opera Bot. 21: 213. 1968; in Leistner, Fl. Southern Africa 16(3:6): 316. 1988) stated that the name was based on Tulbagh 29, which he could not locate. He therefore designated 893.30 (LINN) as a neotype. He was evidently unaware of the existence of Tulbagh’s specimen (which supports current usage) among the small number of Linnaean sheets at BM and, moreover, appeared to overlook 893.31 (LINN), annotated with “genistoides” by Linnaeus which, although it does not support current usage, cannot be dismissed as not being original material.

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 324, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BM
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Aspalathus
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Fabales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
P. J. Bergius
Species
corrudifolia
Taxon rank
species