Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
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London
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Crotalaria lotifolia
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 715. 1753
,
typ. cons.
"Habitat in Jamaica." RCN: 5258.
Conserved type (Fawcett & Rendle,
Fl. Jamaica
4: 11. 1920): [icon] "
Crotalaria trifolia
fruticosa foliis glabris, flore e viridi luteo minore
" in Sloane, Voy. Jamaica 2: 33, t. 176, f. 1, 2. 1725. -
Typotype
: Herb. Sloane 6: 5 (
BM-SL
)
.
Generitype
of
Crotalaria
Linnaeus
,
nom. cons.
Current name:
Crotalaria lotifolia
L.
(
Fabaceae
:
Faboideae
).
Note:
Crotalaria lotifolia
, with the type designated by Fawcett & Rendle, was proposed as conserved type of the genus by Jarvis (in
Taxon
41: 561. 1992). This was eventually approved by the General Committee (see review of the history of this proposal by Barrie,
l.c.
55: 795-796. 2006).