Mesua ferrea 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 : 672

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Mesua ferrea Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1: 515. 1753 View Cited Treatment .

"Habitat in India." RCN: 5112.

Lectotype (Maheshwari in Bull. Bot. Surv. India 5: 337. 1963): Herb. Hermann 1: 38, No. 203 (BM-000594469) .

Generitype of Mesua Linnaeus.

Current name: Mesua ferrea L. ( Clusiaceae ).

Note: Kostermans (in Dassanayake & Fosberg, Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 1: 106. 1980) identified the lectotype as material of M. thwaitesii Planchon & Triana. However, Stevens (in Taxon 35: 353. 1986) refutes this identification.