Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
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Punica granatum Linnaeus 1753

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

Description

Punica granatum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 472. 1753.

"Habitat in Hispania, Italia, Mauritania solo cretaceo." RCN: 3616.

Lectotype (Graham in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 80. 1993): Herb. Clifford: 184, Punica 1 (BM-000628599).

Generitype of Punica Linnaeus.

Current name: Punica granatum L. (Punicaceae).

Note: Vu Van Cuong (in Aubréville, Fl. Cambodge Laos Vietnam 4: 191. 1965) and Siddiqi (in Jafri & El-Gadi, Fl. Libya 76: 2. 1980) indicated material at LINN as type but failed to distinguish between 638.1 and 638.2. As they do not appear to be part of the same gathering, Art. 9.15 does not apply.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P), pp. 718-782 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 780, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BM
Family
Lythraceae
Genus
Punica
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
BM-000628599
Order
Myrtales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
granatum
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Punica granatum Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007