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Aquilegia vulgaris Linnaeus 1753

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Aquilegia vulgaris Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 533. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae nemoribus saxosis." RCN: 3964.

Lectotype (Jonsell & Jarvis in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 20. 1993): Herb. Clifford: 215, Aquilegia 1, sheet A (BM-000628801).

Generitype of Aquilegia Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 162. 1929).

Current name: Aquilegia vulgaris L. (Ranunculaceae).

Note: Jonsell & Jarvis (in Nordic J. Bot. 14: 160. 1994) discussed the reasons for their earlier (1993) choice of lectotype, which pre-dates Vassiljeva’s type choice (in Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 30: 15. 1996) of 699.5 (LINN).

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 307, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Collection code
BM
Material sample ID
BM-000628801
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Ranunculales
Family
Ranunculaceae
Genus
Aquilegia
Species
vulgaris
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Aquilegia vulgaris Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007