Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
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Calligonum polygonoides Linnaeus 1753

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

Description

Calligonum polygonoides Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 530. 1753.

"Habitat in monte Ararat." RCN: 3944.

Type not designated.

Original material: Herb. Clifford: 212, Calligonum 1 (BM); [icon] in Tournefort, Rel. Voy. Levant (Paris ed.) 2: 356. 1717.

Generitype of Calligonum Linnaeus.

Current name: Calligonum polygonoides L. (Polygonaceae).

Note: A. number of authors, including Cullen (in Davis, Fl. Turkey 2: 267. 1967) and Bhopal & Chaudhri (in Pakistan Syst. 1(2): 66. 1977) have treated Tournefort material (P-TOURN) as the type but this was not studied by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name.

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 375, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BM
Family
Polygonaceae
Genus
Calligonum
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
212
Order
Polygonales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
polygonoides
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Calligonum polygonoides Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007