Astragalus sesameus L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 252-342 : 335

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Astragalus sesamoides Linnaeus View in CoL , Amoenitates Academicae 4: 489. 1759, orth. var.

["Habitat in G. Narbonensi, Italia."] Sp. Pl. 2: 759 (1753).

Lectotype (designated here by Podlech): [icon] " Astragalus annuus foliis & siliquis hirsutis, plurimis in foliorum alis sessilibus " in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 79, f. 3. 1691; Almag. Bot.: 60. 1696. - Voucher: Herb. Sloane 99: 137 ( BM-SL) .

Current name: Astragalus sesameus L. View in CoL View at ENA ( Fabaceae : Faboideae ).

Note: Astragalus sesamoides L. ( Amoen. Acad. 4: 489. 1759) was regarded by Stearn (in Geck & Pressler, Festschr. Claus Nissen: 632. 1974) as an orthographic variant of A. sesameus L. ( Sp. Pl. 2: 759. 1753). This seems perfectly plausible, because the phrase name used by Magnol ( Bot. Monsp.: 194. 1676), "Ornithopodio affinis hirsuta stella legiminosa", cited (only slightly altered) from Bauhin ( Pinax: 350. 1623), was treated as a synonym of A. sesameus by Linnaeus in 1753. Moreover, A. sesamoides never appears again in later works, whereas A. sesameus does (see Turland & Jarvis in Taxon 46: 464. 1997).