Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
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Alchemilla vulgaris Linnaeus 1753

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

Description

Alchemilla vulgaris Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 123. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae pascuis." RCN: 1015.

Lectotype (Purohit & Panigrahi, Fam. Rosaceae India 1: 185. 1991): Herb. Linn. No. 166.1 (LINN).

Generitype of Alchemilla Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 126. 1929).

Current name: Alchemilla vulgaris L. (Rosaceae).

Note: Fröhner (in Gleditschia 14: 51-67. 1986) discussed the typification of this name in some detail, but appeared to select an ineligible David van Royen (see his f. 4) specimen (sheet 908. 190-1281, L) as lectotype. Purohit & Panigrahi (in Fam. Rosaceae India 1: 185. 1991) explicitly treated 166.1 (LINN) as the type and, recognising that it is a mixture of two taxa, called it a nomen confusum. They say they are using it as a “neutral” aggregate name. Many authors have treated A. vulgaris as a nomen ambiguum.

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 274, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN
Family
Rosaceae
Genus
Alchemilla
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
166.1
Order
Rosales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
vulgaris
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Alchemilla vulgaris Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007