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Rubia cordifolia Linnaeus 1768

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Rubia cordifolia Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 12, 3: 229. 1768.

"Habitat in Maiorca. Gerard." RCN: 894.

Type not designated.

Original material: Herb. Linn. No. 131.7 (LINN).

Current name: Rubia cordifolia L. (Rubiaceae).

Note: There have been difficulties in interpreting this name, partly because Linnaeus originally described it as coming from Majorca, and later (in Mant. Pl. Alt.: 197. 1771) modified this to "Sibiria, China") - see Hara & Kurosawa (in Sci. Rep. Tôhoku Univ., Ser. 4, Biol. 29: 258. 1963) and Verdcourt (in Kew Bull. 30: 322. 1975). Although Ehrendorfer & Schönbeck-Temesy (in Rechinger, Fl. Iranica 176: 52. 2005) indicated 131.7 (LINN) as type, they did not state "designated here" or an equivalent as required by Art. 7.11.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part R), pp. 785-805 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 800, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN
Material sample ID
131.7
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Gentianales
Family
Rubiaceae
Genus
Rubia
Species
cordifolia
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rubia cordifolia Linnaeus, 1768 sec. Jarvis, 2007