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Biscutella didyma Linnaeus 1753

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Biscutella didyma Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 653. 1753, typ.cons.

"Habitat in Germania, Gallia, Italia." RCN: 4570.

Replaced synonym of: Biscutella apula L. (1771).

Conserved type (Heywood in Feddes Repert. 69: 150. 1964): Herb. Clifford: 329, Biscutella 2 (BM-000646258).

Generitype of Biscutella Linnaeus, nom. cons.

Current name: Biscutella didyma L. (Brassicaceae).

Note: Biscutella didyma, with the type designated by Heywood, was proposed as conserved type of the genus by Jarvis (in Taxon 41: 558. 1992). This was eventually approved by the General Committee (see review of the history of this proposal by Barrie, l.c. 55: 795-796. 2006).

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part B), pp. 343-369 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 352, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Collection code
BM
Material sample ID
BM-000646258
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Brassicales
Family
Brassicaceae
Genus
Biscutella
Species
didyma
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Biscutella didyma Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007