Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
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Calamus rotang Linnaeus 1753

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Calamus rotang Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 325. 1753.

"Habitat in Indiae sylvis juxta fluenta." RCN: 2528.

Type not designated.

Original material: [icon] in Piso, Ind. Nat. Med.: 188. 1658.

Generitype of Calamus Linnaeus.

Current name: Calamus rotang L. (Arecaceae).

Note: Moore & Dransfield (in Taxon 28: 59. 1979) designated a Burman specimen in G, linked by Beccari (in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 11: 272. 1908) with the cited Burman reference, as lectotype. However, Burman did not illustrate the plant and Linnaeus did not see Burman’s material so it cannot be original material for the name. As there is a cited Piso illustration in existence, Moore & Dransfield’s choice unfortunately cannot be treated as a neotypification under Art. 9.8.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C), pp. 370-473 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 373, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Arecales
Family
Arecaceae
Genus
Calamus
Species
rotang
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Calamus rotang Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007