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Melilotus italicus Lam.

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Trifolium italicum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 765. 1753.

"Habitat in Italia." RCN: 5641.

Lectotype (Jafri in Jafri & El-Gadi, Fl. Libya 86: 220. 1980): Herb. Linn. No. 930.6 (LINN).

Current name: Melilotus italicus (L.) Lam. (Fabaceae: Faboideae).

Note: Specific epithet spelled " M. italica " [“M.” for “Melilotus”] in the protologue. Later corrected to T. italicum in Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 1176 (1759). As is established custom, the “Melilotus” is to be ignored (see Art. 23.8 and Ex. 19).

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part T), pp. 878-905 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 897, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN
Material sample ID
930.6
Scientific name authorship
Lam.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Fabales
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Melilotus
Species
italicus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Melilotus italicus (Linnaeus, 1753) sec. Jarvis, 2007