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Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
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Ballota hispanica Benth.

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

Description

Marrubium hispanicum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 583. 1753.

"Habitat in Hispania." RCN: 4260.

Lectotype (Heywood in Agron. Lusit. 20: 202. 1959): Herb. Clifford: 312, Marrubium 7 (BM-000646091).

Current name: Ballota hispanica (L.) Benth. (Lamiaceae).

Note: Lacaita (in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 47: 166. 1925) concluded that the name should be abandoned as excessively confused. Heywood (1959) argued that Lacaita was wrong to reject the Clifford material, and that it must be the lectotype, also discussing the possibility that rejection of the name might be necessary Patzak (in Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 63: 58, 67-69. 1959) followed Heywood as to typification, but rejected the name as ambiguous, taking up B. hirsuta Benth. for the Spanish plant, and B. rupestris (Biv.) Vis. for the Eastern Mediterranean taxon. However, no formal proposal for the rejection of the name has been made.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M), pp. 651-689 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 657, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Collection code
BM
Family
Lamiaceae
Genus
Ballota
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
BM-000646091
Order
Lamiales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Benth.
Species
hispanica
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Ballota hispanica (Linnaeus, 1753) sec. Jarvis, 2007