Digitaria insularis (L.) Fedde

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 252-342 : 291

Andropogon insularis Linnaeus , Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 1304. 1759.

["Habitat in Jamaica."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 1481 (1763). RCN: 7557.

Lectotype (Hitchcock in Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 12: 126. 1908): Browne, Herb. Linn. No. 1211.20 ( LINN) .

Current name: Digitaria insularis (L.) Fedde ( Poaceae ).

Note: Specific epithet spelled “insulare” in the protologue.

Baum (in Canad. J. Bot. 45: 1850. 1967) argued that Hitchcock’s typification was incorrect, proposing instead that Sloane’s cited t. 14, f. 2 (1707) should be the type (with the consequence that A. insularis would fall into the synonymy of A. nutans L. 1753 ). However, the material designated as type was evidently original material for A. insularis , and Hitchcock’s choice has priority and is to be adopted, as concluded by later authors such as Veldkamp (in Taxon 33: 95-97. 1984).