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Saccharum officinarum Linnaeus 1753

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Saccharum officinarum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 54. 1753.

"Habitat in Indiae utriusque locis inundatis." RCN: 453.

Lectotype (Reveal & al. in Taxon 38: 96. 1989): [icon] " Arundo saccharifera C. B. " in Sloane, Voy. Jamaica 1: 108, t. 66. 1707. - Typotype: Herb. Sloane 2: 14 (BM-SL).

Generitype of Saccharum Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 119. 1929).

Current name: Saccharum officinarum L. (Poaceae).

Note: As has been noted by Barrie & al. (in Taxon 41: 511. 1992), the typification made by Reveal & al. is pre-dated by the competing choice of Sherif & Siddiqi (in El-Gadi, Fl. Libya 145: 328. 1988), who chose 77.2 (LINN), a specimen of Miscanthus floridulus (Labill.) Warb, ex Schum. & Lander. It appears that a conservation proposal may be necessary but in the meantime, Art. 57.1 applies, and no change in the application of the name should occur.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part S), pp. 806-877 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 806, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BM-SL
Material sample ID
14
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Saccharum
Species
officinarum
Taxon rank
species
Type status
typotype
Taxonomic concept label
Saccharum officinarum Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007