Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part T)
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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Theobroma cacao
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 782. 1753
.
"Habitat in America meridionali, Antillis." RCN: 5722.
Lectotype
(Dorr in Jarvis & al.,
Regnum Veg.
127: 93. 1993): [icon]
"Cacao"
in Sloane, Voy. Jamaica 2: 15, t. 160. 1725. -
Typotype
: Herb. Sloane 5: 59 (
BM-SL
)
.
Generitype
of
Theobroma
Linnaeus
(vide Green,
Prop. Brit. Bot
.: 177. 1929).
Current name:
Theobroma cacao
L.
(
Sterculiaceae
).
Note:
Cuatracasas (in
Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
35: 385, 496, 508, 513. 1964) designated the flowers and leaves in
Herb. Sloane 5: 59 (
BMSL
)
as
lectotype
, with a Tournefort illustration (not cited in
Linnaeus'
protologue) as a
"Fruit-lectotype"
. As Linnaeus would not have seen the flowers themselves, they cannot be original material for the name. However, Dorr has formally designated
Sloane's
illustration as
lectotype
, with
Sloane's
material (the basis for the illustration) as
typotype
.