Phalangium spicatum Houtt.
Description
79. Phalangium spicatum Houtt.,
Nat. Hist. II(12): Aanwyz. Plaat. [2], 115, tab. 80, fig. 2. 1780.
Lectotypus (designated here by Callmander & Fumeaux): SOUTH AFRICA: Auge s.n. [?] (G-PREL [G00818067]!).
= Micranthus plantagineus Eckl., Topogr. Verz. Pflanzensamml. Ecklon: 43. 1827.
Notes. – The single element of original material in the Cape herbarium is designated here as the lectotype. It is a good match for the plate. Micranthus spicatus (L.) Heyn. prevents the transfer of Houttuyn’s epithet to the genus Micranthus (Pers.) Eckl. See GOLDBLATT et al. (2013: 140-142) for an interesting discussion on M. plantagineus. The latter authors considered the plate in Nat. Hist. II(12): tab. 80, fig. 2. 1780 to be the type of Houttuyn’s name (i.e., they implicitly designated it as the lectotype), but the existence of original material supersedes their lectotypification.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- G-PREL
- Material sample ID
- G00818067
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Iridaceae
- Genus
- Phalangium
- Species
- spicatum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- lectotype
References
- GOLDBLATT, P., J. C. MANNING & R. E. GEREAU (2013). The Cape genus Micranthus (Iridaceae: Crocoideae), nomenclature and taxonomy. Bothalia 43: 127 - 144.