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Cuscuta europaea Linnaeus 1753

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Cuscuta europaea Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 124. 1753.

"Habitat in Plantis Europae parasitica." RCN: 1022.

Lectotype (Rajput & Tahir in Nasir & Ali, Fl. Pakistan 189: 16. 1988): Herb. Linn. No. 170.1 (LINN).

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

Current name: Cuscuta europaea L. (Cuscutaceae).

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 467, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN
Material sample ID
170.1
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Solanales
Family
Convolvulaceae
Genus
Cuscuta
Species
europaea
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Cuscuta europaea Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007