Cenchrus echinatus 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 : 398

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Cenchrus echinatus Linnaeus View in CoL , Species Plantarum 2: 1050. 1753.

"Habitat in Jamaica, Curassao." RCN: 7585.

Lectotype (Veldkamp in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 31. 1993): Herb. A. van Royen No. 912.356-116 ( L) .

Generitype of Cenchrus Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 193. 1929).

Current name: Cenchrus echinatus L. View in CoL ( Poaceae ).

Note: Hitchcock (in Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 12: 127. 1908) and a number of later authors treated 1217.7 (LINN) as the type but this collection is a post-1753 addition to the herbarium and ineligible as type. Clayton & Renvoize (in Polhill, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Gramineae 3: 695. 1982) indicated a Dickinson collection from Bermuda (Herb. Sloane, BM) as a syntype, but it was not seen by Linnaeus and cannot be original material for the name.