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Asclepias purpurascens Linnaeus 1753

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Asclepias amoena Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 214. 1753.

"Habitat in America septentrionali." RCN: 1774.

Lectotype (Reveal & al. in Huntia 7: 155. 1987): [icon] " Apocynum floribus amoene purpureis, corniculis surrectis" in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 1: 31, t. 27, f. 30. 1732. - Typotype: Herb. Sherard No. 569 (OXF).

Current name: Asclepias purpurascens L. (Asclepiadaceae).

Note: See Gray (in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 12: 67. 1876) and Britten (in J. Bot. 36: 298. 1898) who both use the expression "founded upon" (which is not accepted as equivalent to “type”) in connection with the cited Dillenius plate.

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 pages 320-321, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Collection code
OXF
Material sample ID
569
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Gentianales
Family
Apocynaceae
Genus
Asclepias
Species
purpurascens
Taxon rank
species
Type status
typotype
Taxonomic concept label
Asclepias purpurascens Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007