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Achillea millefolium Linnaeus 1753

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

Description

Achillea millefolium Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 899. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae pascuis pratisque." RCN: 6506.

Lectotype (Huber-Morath in Ber. Schweiz. Bot. Ges. 84: 154. 1975): Herb. Linn. No. 1017.20 (LINN).

Generitype of Achillea Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 182. 1929).

Current name: Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae).

Note: Achillea santolina was treated as the generitype of Achillea by Britton & Brown (Ill. Fl. N. U. S., ed. 2, 3: 514. 1913; see McNeill & al. in Taxon 36: 356. 1987). However, under Art. 10.5, Ex. 7 (a voted example) of the Vienna Code, this is a type choice made under the American Code and is to be replaced under Art. 10.5b by Green’s choice (Prop. Brit. Bot.: 182. 1929) of A. millefolium. Dabrowska (in Acta Univ. Wratislav., Prace Bot. 24: plate XI. 1982) illustrates the type.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), pp. 252-342 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 255, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Achillea
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
1017.20
Order
Asterales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
millefolium
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Achillea millefolium Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007