Cyperus compressus L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 370-473 : 470

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Cyperus compressus Linnaeus View in CoL , Species Plantarum 1: 46. 1753 View Cited Treatment .

"Habitat in Americae septentrionalis pratis arenosis." RCN: 392.

Lectotype (Tucker in Syst. Bot. Monogr. 43: 103. 1994): Clayton 598 (BM-000051698).

Current name: Cyperus compressus L. View in CoL ( Cyperaceae ).

Note: There appear to be problems with this name. Tucker (in Syst. Bot. Monogr. 2: 35. 1983) said that the type was "probably based on Sloane’s plate". However, later (in Syst. Bot. Monogr. 43: 103. 1994) he explicitly recognised Clayton 598 (BM) as the (holo)type, noting that McVaugh had pointed out his earlier “lapse”. Unfortunately, although Sloane’s plant is what has been known as C. compressus , Clayton’s specimen is apparently of C. rivularis Kunth, and Tucker (who calls this C. bipartitus Torr. ) was presumably unaware that C. compressus should now displace the latter.