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Asclepias syriaca Linnaeus 1753

Authors/Creators

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

Description

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

"Habitat in Virginia." RCN: 1773.

Lectotype (Woodson in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 41: 105. 1954): Herb. Linn. No. 310.14 (LINN).

Generitype of Asclepias Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 136. 1929).

Current name: Asclepias syriaca L. (Asclepiadaceae).

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 322, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN
Material sample ID
310.14
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Gentianales
Family
Apocynaceae
Genus
Asclepias
Species
syriaca
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Asclepias syriaca Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007