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Xanthium spinosum Linnaeus 1753

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Xanthium spinosum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 987. 1753.

"Habitat in Lusitania." RCN: 7156.

Lectotype (Wijnands, Bot. Commelins: 87. 1983): Herb. Linn. No. 1113.3 (LINN).

Current name: Xanthium spinosum L. (Asteraceae).

Note: The type choice made by Wijnands (Sep 1983) narrowly predates a different choice of Clifford material (BM) made by Alavi (in Jafri & El-Gadi, Fl. Libya 107: 123. Dec 1983).

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part X), pp. 928-930 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 928, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN
Material sample ID
1113.3
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Xanthium
Species
spinosum
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Xanthium spinosum Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007