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Asclepias variegata Linnaeus 1753

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Asclepias variegata Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 215. 1753.

"Habitat in America boreali." RCN: 1776.

Lectotype (Rendle in Proc. Linn. Soc. London 148: 63. 1936): [icon] " Apocynum American, erectum, tuberosa radice non incanum, foliis rigidioribus, latis, subrotundis, floribus alb. intus purpureis, summo cauli Corymbum magnum efformantibus" in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 77, f. 1. 1691; Almag. Bot.: 34. 1696. - Typotype: Herb. Sloane 95: 57 (BM-SL).

Current name: Asclepias variegata L. (Asclepiadaceae).

Note: Although Woodson (in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 41: 62, 118. 1954) indicated 310.20 (LINN) as the type, Rendle’s choice has priority.

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 322, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BM-SL
Material sample ID
57
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Gentianales
Family
Apocynaceae
Genus
Asclepias
Species
variegata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
typotype
Taxonomic concept label
Asclepias variegata Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007