Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
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Mirabilis jalapa Linnaeus 1753

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Mirabilis jalapa Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 177. 1753.

"Habitat in India utraque." RCN: 1400.

Lectotype (Larsen in Morat, Fl. Cambodge Laos Viêtnam 24: 108. 1989): Herb. Linn. No. 240.2 (LINN).

Generitype of Mirabilis Linnaeus.

Current name: Mirabilis jalapa L. (Nyctaginaceae).

Note: Kellogg (in Howard, Fl. Lesser Antilles 4: 181. 1988) indicated unseen material in the Clifford herbarium (BM) as “type”. However, as there are two sheets associated with this name, which are not part of a single gathering, this is not an effective choice and Art. 9.15 does not apply. Although Le Duc (in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 67. 1993) accepted a single Clifford sheet (BM) as lectotype, Larsen had, in the meantime, designated a sheet in LINN as type and this appears to be the earliest explicit choice.

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 678, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN
Material sample ID
240.2
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Nyctaginaceae
Genus
Mirabilis
Species
jalapa
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Mirabilis jalapa Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007