Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part H)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
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London
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Holcus sorghum
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 1047. 1753
.
"Habitat in India." RCN: 7566.
Lectotype
(Davidse in Cafferty & al. in
Taxon
49: 251. 2000): Herb. Clifford: 468,
Holcus
1 (BM-000647533)
.
Current name:
Sorghum bicolor
(L.) Moench
(
Poaceae
).
Note:
Clayton (in Dassanayake & al.,
Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon
8: 414. 1994), and Judziewicz (in
Goerts-van
Rijn,
Fl. Guianas
, ser A, 8: 598. 1990) appear to have regarded
Herb. Linn. No. 1212.6 (
LINN
)
as the type, but it is a post-1753 specimen, and therefore not original material for the name.