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Belamcanda chinensis A. DC. 1805

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Epidendrum domesticum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 952. 1753.

"Habitat in Indiae orientalis Bataviae arboribus, parasitica." RCN: 6877.

Lectotype (Garay in Harvard Pap. Bot. 2: 49. 1997): [icon] " Angurek warna " in Kaempfer, Amoen. Exot. Fasc.: 867, 869. 1712. - Epitype (Goldblatt & Mabberley in Novon 15: 129. 2005): E. Davall in Herb. J.E. Smith, No. 89.42 (LINN-SM).

Current name: Belamcanda chinensis (L.) A. DC. (Iridaceae).

Note: The name has been associated with the genus Vanilla, probably as a result of Linnaeus reducing it to an unnamed variety of E. vanilla (Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 1348. 1763), and is evidently based on the cited Kaempfer reference. However, Garay has recently typified the name using part of Kaempfer’s illustration that he identifies as Belamcanda chinensis (L.) DC. (Iridaceae). As a consequence, E. domesticum falls into the synonymy of the latter. However, if Belamcanda is subsumed within Iris, as favoured by Goldblatt & Mabberley (in Novon 15: 128-132. 2005), the correct name for E. domesticum is I. domestica (L.) Goldblatt & Mabb.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part E), pp. 490-515 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 495, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN-SM
Material sample ID
89.42
Scientific name authorship
A. DC.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Asparagales
Family
Iridaceae
Genus
Belamcanda
Species
chinensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Belamcanda chinensis DC., 1805 sec. Jarvis, 2007