Cliffortia polygonifolia L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 370-473 : 427

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Cliffortia polygonifolia Linnaeus View in CoL , Species Plantarum 2: 1038. 1753.

"Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 7496.

Lectotype (Stearn, Introd. Linnaeus’ Sp. Pl. (Ray Soc. ed.): 47. 1957): [icon] " Cliffortia foliis linearibus pilosis: Femina " in Linnaeus, Hort. Cliff.: 501, t. 32. 1738. - Voucher: Herb. Clifford: 501, Cliffortia 3 ( BM) .

Generitype of Cliffortia Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 192. 1929).

Current name: Cliffortia polygonifolia L. View in CoL ( Rosaceae ).

Note: Oliver & Fellingham (in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 35. 1993) designated a Clifford sheet as lectotype, but this choice is pre-dated by that of Stearn. Weimarck (Monogr: Cliffortia : 83. 1934) noted the Hort. Cliff. illustration as "a good figure" adding "the type specimen has disappeared".