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
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Theobroma guazuma
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 782. 1753
.
"Habitat in Jamaicae campestribus." RCN: 5723.
Lectotype
(
Cristobal
in
Bonplandia
6: 190, f. 2. 1989): Herb. Clifford: 379,
Theobroma
2 (
BM
)
.
Current name:
Guazuma ulmifolia
Lam.
(
Sterculiaceae
).
Note:
Freytag (in
Ceiba
1: 220. 1951) and some later authors wrongly indicated as the type sheet 934.2 (LINN), a
Mutis
collection received long after 1753. Similarly, Verdcourt (in Dassanayake & al.,
Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon
9: 421. 1995) wrongly indicated 934.3 (LINN), a Patrick Browne collection not received by Linnaeus until 1758, as
lectotype
.
Cristobal's
type choice is correct, though her treatment of the Clifford material as a
neotype
, rather than the
lectotype
, was noted and corrected by Fryxell (in McVaugh,
Fl. Novo-Galiciana
3: 123. 2001).