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Adiantum reniforme Linnaeus 1753

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Adiantum reniforme Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1094. 1753.

"Habitat in Madera." RCN: 7921.

Lectotype (Verdcourt in Beentje, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Adiantaceae: 52. 2002): [icon] "Filix Hemionitis dicta Maderensis pediculis splendentibus nigris, crenatis foliis Asari rotundioribus crenarum segmentis oblongo quadratis, ob semina adnascentia per ambitum circumcirca reflexis" in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 287. f. 5. 1694; Almag. Bot.: 155. 1696. - Typotype: Herb. Sloane 100: 51 (BM-SL).

Current name: Adiantum reniforme L. (Pteridaceae).

Note: See comments on the Plukenet figure and voucher by Francisco-Ortega & al. (in Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. London (Bot.) 24: 12, f. 6, 7. 1994). Roux (Consp. Southern African Pteridophyta: 77. 2001) indicated material in Herb. Sloane as the lectotype, but it was not studied by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name.

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 263, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BM-SL
Material sample ID
51
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Polypodiales
Family
Pteridaceae
Genus
Adiantum
Species
reniforme
Taxon rank
species
Type status
typotype
Taxonomic concept label
Adiantum reniforme Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007