Mangifera indica L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 651-689 : 655

Mangifera indica Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1: 200. 1753 .

"Habitat in India." RCN: 1624.

Lectotype (Bornstein in Howard, Fl. Lesser Antilles 5: 98. 1989): [icon] “Mau” in Rheede, Hort. Malab. 4: 1, t. 1, t. 2. 1683.

Generitype of Mangifera Linnaeus.

Current name: Mangifera indica L. ( Anacardiaceae ).

Note: Herb. Linn. 276.1 ( LINN) has been indicated as the type by a number of authors since Fawcett & Rendle (Fl. Jamaica 5: 7. 1926), but it is evidently a later addition to the herbarium and not original material for the name. Although Mukherji (in Lloydia 12: 74, 83. 1949) concluded that no type specimen existed, he treated Hermann’s description as the basis of the species (which is contrary to Art. 8.1). Kostermans & Bompard (The Mangoes: 96, f. 61. 1993) treated an illustration in Herb. Hermann 5: 223 ( BM) as the holotype, but their choice is pre-dated by that of Bornstein, which is accepted here.