Melia azedarach Linnaeus 1753
Creators
- 1. Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
Description
Melia azedarach Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 384. 1753.
"Habitat in Syria." RCN: 3031.
Lectotype (Abdulla in Nasir & Ali, Fl. W. Pakistan 17: 8. 1972): Herb. Hermann 1: 10, No. 162 (BM-000621259).
Generitype of Melia Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 153. 1929).
Current name: Melia azedarach L. (Meliaceae).
Note: Mabberley (in Gard. Bull. Singapore 37: 63-64. 1984) provided a detailed account of the history of this taxon and its many cultivars, concluding that its type should be a Clifford sheet. However, this choice is pre-dated by that of Abdulla (and followed by several later authors), who chose Hermann material from Sri Lanka as the type. Despite some confusion over the geographical provenance (Syria vs. Ceylon) of M. azedarach and its var. sempervirens by Linnaeus, his diagnosis for the species name is firmly linked with the Flora Zeylanica account, and there seem to be no grounds for rejecting Abdulla’s choice. There appear to be no nomenclatural implications at species rank.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BM
- Family
- Meliaceae
- Genus
- Melia
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Material sample ID
- BM-000621259
- Order
- Sapindales
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- azedarach
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- lectotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melia azedarach Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007