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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Myosotis scorpioides
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 131. 1753
.
"Habitat in Europae α campis aridis & β aquosis scaturiginosis." RCN: 1063.
Type not designated.
Original material:
Kalm
,
Herb. Linn. No. 180.2 (
LINN
)
;
Loefling
141
,
Herb. Linn. No. 180.1 (
LINN
)
;
Herb. Linn. No. 180.3 (
LINN
)
.
Generitype
of
Myosotis
Linnaeus
(vide Hitchcock,
Prop. Brit. Bot.
: 127. 1929).
Current name:
Myosotis scorpioides
L.
(
Boraginaceae
).
Note:
Although Wade (in
J. Bot.
80: 128. 1944) indicated Clifford material (BM), identifiable with
M. palustris
(L.) Hill
as
lectotype
, there have been difficulties with the application of the name, which has been used in the sense of both
M. arvensis
(L.) Hill
and
M. palustris
, and occasionally discarded as a
nomen ambiguum.
Verberne (in
Acta Bot. Neerl.
8: 330-337. 1959) and Holub (in
Preslia
38: 130-136. 1966) have both discussed the matter at length. It may be that a formal proposal (for conservation or rejection) will be needed to resolve this problem.