Hermas villosa (L.) Thunb.

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part H), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 557-585 : 568

Hermas depauperata Linnaeus , Mantissa Plantarum Altera: 299. 1771, nom. illeg.

"Habitat ad Cap. b. Spei." RCN: 7649.

Replaced synonym: Bupleurum villosum L. (1753) .

Lectotype (Burtt in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 53. 1993): [icon] " Perfoliata foliis oblongis, sinuosis, subtus incanis " in Burman, Rar. Afric. Pl.: 196, t. 71, f. 2. 1739.

Generitype of Hermas Linnaeus.

Current name: Hermas villosa (L.) Thunb. ( Apiaceae ).

Note: Burtt (in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 48: 213. 1991) suggested that 1227.1 (LINN) was probably the specimen upon which this was based. However, H. depauperata is an illegitimate replacement name in Hermas for Bupleurum villosum L. (1753) and homotypic with it. The material in LINN appears to be a post-1753 addition to the collection and not original material for B. villosum . For this reason, Burtt (1993) typified the name on the cited Burman illustration (though f. 1 and its corresponding polynomial was unfortunately cited in error for f. 2).