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Nyssa aquatica Linnaeus 1753

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Nyssa aquatica Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1058. 1753.

"Habitat in Americae septentrionalis aquosis." RCN: 7703.

Lectotype (Reveal in Phytologia 71: 470. 1991): Clayton s.n. " Nyssa foeminea pedunculis unifions" (BM-000042689).

Generitype of Nyssa Linnaeus.

Current name: Nyssa aquatica L. (Nyssaceae).

Note: Detailed reviews of this name and the complexities of its application were published by Eyde (in Rhodora 61: 209-218. 1959; Taxon 13: 129-131. 1964), but neither he nor Howard & Staples (in J. Arnold Arbor. 64: 533. 1983) explicitly chose a type.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part N), pp. 690-695 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 695, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Cornaceae
Genus
Nyssa
Species
aquatica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Nyssa aquatica Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007