Commelina erecta L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 370-473 : 434

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Commelina erecta Linnaeus View in CoL , Species Plantarum 1: 41. 1753 View Cited Treatment .

"Habitat in Virginia." RCN: 349.

Lectotype (Clarke in De Candolle in Monogr. Phanerog. 3: 181. 1881): [icon] " Commelina erecta , ampliore subcaeruleo flore " in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 1: 91, t. 77, f. 88. 1732.

Current name: Commelina erecta L. View in CoL ( Commelinaceae ).

Note: Some authors (e.g. Fernald in Rhodora 42: 436. 1940) have accepted Clarke (1881) as having typified the name (though this is open to doubt) using the cited Dillenian plate, though Hunt (in McVaugh, Fl. Novo-Galiciana 13: 144. 1993) has more recently thrown doubt on the taxonomic identity of this element. Morton (in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 60: 183. 1967) treated 65.6 (LINN) as the type but the identity of this, too, has been questioned (see Rao & al. in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 60: 360. 1968).