Thalictrum foetidum L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part T), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 878-905 : 883

Thalictrum foetidum Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1: 545. 1753 , typ. cons.

"Habitat Monspelii, inque Valletia, Helvetia." RCN: 4041.

Conserved type (Hand in Taxon 51: 199. 2002): Italy. Val d’Aosta. Clemenceau near Lignan, WSW of the village, rocks in gorge, ca. 1,650m, 23 Apr 1993. Cultivated at B; herbarium specimen preserved 10 Jun 1998, R. Hand 933 (B; iso- BM, C, K).

Generitype of Thalictrum Linnaeus , nom. cons.

Current name: Thalictrum foetidum L. ( Ranunculaceae ).

Note: Thalictrum foetidum , with Herb. Clifford: 227, Thalictrum 5 ( BM) there designated by Riedl, was proposed as conserved type of the genus by Jarvis (in Taxon 41: 574. 1992). Hand (Revis. Eur. Art. Thalictrum subsect. Thalictrum : 135, 305. 2001) identified the proposed conserved type as T. minus L. , not T. foetidum and, in the light of the disruption that this would cause were the original proposal to be approved, proposed (in Taxon 51: 199. 2002) Hand 933, from Italy, as typ. cons. prop. This was recommended by the Committee for Spermatophyta (in Taxon 53: 821. 2004). The original conservation proposal was eventually approved by the General Committee (see review of the history of this proposal by Barrie, l.c. 55: 795-796, 798. 2006) with the conserved type as proposed by Hand.