Dioscorea oppositifolia L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part D), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 474-489 : 481

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Dioscorea oppositifolia Linnaeus View in CoL , Species Plantarum 2: 1033. 1753.

"Habitat in India." RCN: 7460.

Type not designated.

Original material: [icon] in Petiver, Gazophyl. Nat.: 50, t. 31, f. 6. 1704.

Current name: Dioscorea oppositifolia L. View in CoL ( Dioscoreaceae ).

Note: Jayasuriya (in Dassanayake & al., Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 9: 67. 1995) incorrectly indicated a König collection (1184.7 LINN) received by Linnaeus long after 1753, as the lectotype. He also excluded (p. 65) from synonymy the only original element (a Petiver plate) for the name.