Bromelia karatas L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part B), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 343-369 : 359

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Bromelia karatas Linnaeus View in CoL , Species Plantarum 1: 285. 1753 View Cited Treatment .

"Habitat in America meridionali." RCN: 2266.

Replaced synonym of: Bromelia acanga L. (1767) , nom. illeg.

Type not designated.

Original material: [icon] in Plumier, Nov. Pl. Amer.: 10, t. 33. 1703.

Generitype of Bromelia Linnaeus (vide Regel, Gartenflora 17: 67. Mar 1868).

Current name: Bromelia karatas L. View in CoL ( Bromeliaceae ).

Note: Grant & Zijlstra (in Selbyana 19: 96. 1998) argue that B. karatas is the generitype, the choice having been made by Regel (in Gartenflora 17: 67. 1868) which therefore pre-dates the choice of B. pinguin made by Hitchcock (Prop. Brit. Bot.: 144. 1929). See discussion of the species name by Smith (in Phytologia 15: 173. 1967) who noted that Linnaeus’ "panicula diffusa" is not shown by the cited Plumier element to which the name had long been attached. Espejo-Serna & al. (in Selbyana 25: 39. 2004) indicated " C. Plumier s.n. (LINN)" as the holotype but there is no such material present in LINN.