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Macrocystis pyrifera C. Agardh

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Fucus pyriferus Linnaeus, Mantissa Plantarum Altera: 311. 1771.

"Habitat in Oceano Aethiopico e profundissimo mari saepe enatans insulasque quasi formans. Koenig, mss. 42." RCN: 8318.

Neotype (Irvine in Spencer & al. in Taxon, in press): W. Falkland Islands. King George’s Sound, Oct 1910, Mrs Elinor Vallentin (BM-000840161).

Current name: Macrocystis pyrifera ( L.) C. Agardh (Lessoniaceae).

Note: Although Womersley (in Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 27: 113. 1954) discussed possible type material in LINN, the only collection associated with this name is unannotated by Linnaeus and is not original material.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part F), pp. 516-528 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 526, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
C. Agardh
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Phaeophyta
Order
Laminariales
Family
Lessoniaceae
Genus
Macrocystis
Species
pyrifera
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Macrocystis pyrifera (Linnaeus, 1771) sec. Jarvis, 2007