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Acalypha virginica Linnaeus 1753

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

Description

Acalypha virginica Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1003. 1753, nom. cons.

"Habitat in Zeylona, Virginia." RCN: 1262.

Conserved type (Reveal & al. in Taxon 39: 361. 1990): Clayton 201 (BM-000038872).

Generitype of Acalypha Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 189. 1929).

Current name: Acalypha virginica L. (Euphorbiaceae).

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 252, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Family
Euphorbiaceae
Genus
Acalypha
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Malpighiales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
virginica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Acalypha virginica Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007