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Astragalus sesameus Linnaeus 1753

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

Description

Astragalus sesamoides Linnaeus, Amoenitates Academicae 4: 489. 1759, orth. var.

["Habitat in G. Narbonensi, Italia."] Sp. Pl. 2: 759 (1753).

Lectotype (designated here by Podlech): [icon] " Astragalus annuus foliis & siliquis hirsutis, plurimis in foliorum alis sessilibus " in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 79, f. 3. 1691; Almag. Bot.: 60. 1696. - Voucher: Herb. Sloane 99: 137 (BM-SL).

Current name: Astragalus sesameus L. (Fabaceae: Faboideae).

Note: Astragalus sesamoides L. (Amoen. Acad. 4: 489. 1759) was regarded by Stearn (in Geck & Pressler, Festschr. Claus Nissen: 632. 1974) as an orthographic variant of A. sesameus L. (Sp. Pl. 2: 759. 1753). This seems perfectly plausible, because the phrase name used by Magnol (Bot. Monsp.: 194. 1676), "Ornithopodio affinis hirsuta stella legiminosa", cited (only slightly altered) from Bauhin (Pinax: 350. 1623), was treated as a synonym of A. sesameus by Linnaeus in 1753. Moreover, A. sesamoides never appears again in later works, whereas A. sesameus does (see Turland & Jarvis in Taxon 46: 464. 1997).

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 335, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Collection code
BM-SL
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Astragalus
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
137
Order
Fabales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
sesameus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Astragalus sesameus Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007