Linum usitatissimum Linnaeus 1753
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
Description
Linum usitatissimum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 277. 1753.
"Habitat hodie inter segetes Europae australis." RCN: 2204.
Lectotype (Seegeler in Taxon 38: 278, f. 1. 1989): Herb. Clifford: 114, Linum 1 (BM-000558456).
Generitype of Linum Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 143. 1929).
Current name: Linum usitatissimum L. (Linaceae).
Note: Kulpa & Danert (in Kulturpflanze 3: 342. 1962) indicated a Brander collection (396.1 LINN), not received by Linnaeus until 1756, as type but it cannot be original material for the name. Rechinger (Fl. Iranica 106: 17. 1974) indicated Clifford material as “syntypi”, but the two sheets preserved at BM are not a single collection so Art. 9.15 does not apply. Seegeler is therefore the first to have made an explicit choice of lectotype.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BM
- Material sample ID
- BM-000558456
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Order
- Malpighiales
- Family
- Linaceae
- Genus
- Linum
- Species
- usitatissimum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- lectotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Linum usitatissimum Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007