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Atraphaxis spinosa Linnaeus 1753

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Atraphaxis spinosa Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 333. 1753.

"Habitat in Media ad urbem Hansen locis glareosis juxta fluvios." RCN: 2575.

Type not designated.

Original material: Herb. Linn. No. 462.1 (LINN); [icon] in Buxbaum, Pl. Minus Cognit. Cent. 1: 19, t. 30. 1728; [icon] in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 1: 47, t. 40, f. 47. 1732.

Generitype of Atraphaxis Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 148. 1929).

Current name: Atraphaxis spinosa L. (Polygonaceae).

Note: Although Qaiser (in Ali & Qaiser, Fl. Pakistan 205: 172. 2001) indicated 462.1 (LINN) as type, his choice was published after 1 Jan 2001 and so the omission of the phrase "designated here" or an equivalent (Art. 7.11) means that this choice is not effective.

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 338, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN
Material sample ID
462.1
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Polygonales
Family
Polygonaceae
Genus
Atraphaxis
Species
spinosa
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Atraphaxis spinosa Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007