Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
London
Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types
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Mespilus cotoneaster
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 479. 1753
,
nom. cons.
"Habitat in Europae frigidioris collibus apricis inque Pyrenaeis, Ararat." RCN: 3659.
Conserved type (Thulin & Ryman in
Taxon
52: 371. 2003): Sweden. Uppland, Norby lund, at the Linnaean path, 15 Jul 2002,
S. Ryman 9126
(UPS).
Current name:
Cotoneaster integerrimus
Medik.
(
Rosaceae
).
Note:
Hylmoe
(in
Svensk Bot. Tidskr.
87: 327. 1993) designated
Herb. Clifford: 189,
Mespilus
5 (
BM
)
as
lectotype
, a collection that he identified as belonging to a mainly central European taxon that he regarded as not conspecific with the apomictic Scandinavian taxon to which the name had long been applied.
Hylmoe
described the Scandinavian species as
C. scandinavicus
Hylmoe
. Thulin & Ryman (in
Taxon
52: 371. 2003) successfully proposed
M. cotoneaster
for conservation with a conserved type, in order to allow
C. integerrimus
Medik.
to continue in use for the Scandinavian taxon whether a narrow or broad species concept is adopted.