Anthurium crenatum (L.) Kunth, 1841

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 718-782 : 768

Pothos crenatus Linnaeus , Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 2: 1373. 1763.

"Habitat in insula S. Thomae." RCN: 7021.

Lectotype (Mayo in Kew Bull. 36: 705. 1982): [icon] " Dracontium acaule , foliis lanceolatis, serratis " in Plumier in Burman, Pl. Amer.: 27, t. 39. 1756.

Current name: Anthurium crenatum (L.) Kunth ( Araceae ).

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

Lourteig (in Bradea 5: 339. 1990) wrongly treated this as illegitimate, on the grounds that its type ( Burman’s plate) was originally based on the Plumier plate that is the type of P. acaulis Jacq. (1760) . However, the protologue of Linnaeus’ name did not include P. acaulis so, as names cannot be made illegitimate through typification, P. crenatus is legitimate.