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Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata Walp.

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Dolichos unguiculatus Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 725. 1753.

"Habitat in Barbados." RCN: 5332.

Neotype (Westphal, Pulses Ethiopia, Taxon. Agric. Signif.: 213. 1974): Westphal 8682 (WAG; iso- K, P).

Current name: Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. subsp. unguiculata (Fabaceae: Faboideae).

Note: Piper (in Torreya 12: 190. 1912) interpreted this name via material in LINN (evidently sheet 900.5) identifiable as Phaseolus antillanus Urb., for which he substituted P. unguiculatus (L.) Piper. However, as queried by Merrill (in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n.s., 24: 215. 1935), this is unannotated by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name. The absence of type material was noted by authors such as Fawcett & Rendle (Fl. Jamaica 4: 69. 1920), and this uncertainty led some to reject it informally. See review by Westphal who provided a neotype for the name.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part D), pp. 474-489 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 485, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Walp.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Fabales
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Vigna
Species
unguiculata
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Taxonomic concept label
Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata (Linnaeus, 1753) sec. Jarvis, 2007