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Aspalathus tridentata Linnaeus 1753

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Aspalathus tridentata Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 712. 1753.

"Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 5235.

Neotype (Dahlgren in Opera Bot. 4: 213. 1960): Herb. Thunberg " Aspalathus tridentata " (UPS).

Current name: Aspalathus tridentata L. (Fabaceae: Faboideae).

Note: Dahlgren designated a Thunberg collection, which was not original material for Linnaeus’ name, as lectotype. However, as there is no extant original material this is accepted as a neotypification (Art. 9.8).

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 324, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Collection code
UPS
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Fabales
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Aspalathus
Species
tridentata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
neotype
Taxonomic concept label
Aspalathus tridentata Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007