Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Carpobrotus acinaciformis L. Bolus

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Mesembryanthemum acinaciforme Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 485. 1753.

"Habitat ad Cap. b. Spei." RCN: 3696.

Lectotype (Preston & Sell in Watsonia 17: 238. 1989): [icon] " Mesembryanthemum acinaciforme, flore amplissimo purpureo " in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 2: 282, t. 211, f. 270. 1732 (OXF).

Current name: Carpobrotus acinaciformis (L.) L. Bolus (Aizoaceae).

Note: Preston & Sell indicate Dillenius’ own, coloured copy of his book at OXF as the lectotype. Jonkers (in Brit. Cact. Succ. J. 19: 182, f. 7. 2001) reproduces the type illustration.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M), pp. 651-689 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 667, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

Files

Files (991 Bytes)

Name Size Download all
md5:631d7fd9a648a7ce9d75aa9e5252a261
991 Bytes Download

System files (5.2 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:7edaf20b4989da074e961a5d8dc306ca
5.2 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
L. Bolus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Aizoaceae
Genus
Carpobrotus
Species
acinaciformis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Carpobrotus acinaciformis (Linnaeus, 1753) sec. Jarvis, 2007