Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part G)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
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Gnaphalium muricatum
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 852. 1753
.
"Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 6153.
Lectotype
(Hilliard & Burtt in
Bot. J. Linn. Soc.
82: 244. 1981): Herb. Clifford: 402,
Gnaphalium
17 [
"18"
] (BM-000647013)
.
Current name:
Metalasia muricata
(L.) D. Don
(
Asteraceae
).
Note:
Hilliard & Burtt (in
Bot. J. Linn. Soc.
82: 244. 1981) indicated
Gnaphalium
sheet no. 18 in
Herb. Clifford (
BM
)
as
lectotype
, presumably in error for no. 17, filed at the end of the genus. Karis (in
Opera Bot.
99: 121. 1989) noted Hilliard &
Burtt's
lectotypification, correcting the sheet number from
"18"
to
"17"
, and pointing out that sheet no. 18 bears material of
Conyza candida
L.
(=
Inula candida
(L.) Cass.
) and is totally inconsistent with the description of
Metalasia muricata
.