Typification of the Linnaean name Cleome heptaphylla (Cleomaceae) and Miller's Cleome erucago. Issue 3 (27th January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Neto, Raimundo Luciano Soares; Thomas, William Wayt; Roalson, Eric H.; de Vasconcellos Barbosa, Maria Regina
• Is Part Of: Taxon. Volume 71:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 679
• Page End: 681
• Publication Date: 2022-01-27
• Subjects: Cleome -- homotypic synonym -- neotype -- nomenclatural type -- Tarenaya spinosa; Plants -- Classification -- Periodicals; 580.12
• DOI: 10.1002/tax.12677
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0040-0262

Abstract

Abstract: The name Cleome heptaphylla was published by Linnaeus in the second edition of Species plantarum and is still untypified. Analysis of the protologue and the associated pre‐Linnaean names indicated the absence of original material that could serve for lectotypification. A specimen from Miller's herbarium at BM is designated as its neotype. The neotype of C. heptaphylla is also original material of C. erucago, another untypified name in this group, published a few years later by Miller. Cleome erucago is lectotypified using the same specimen and, as such, it is a homotypic synonym of C. heptaphylla .