Lectotypification of the name Polycnemum majus (Amaranthaceae s.str.)

HELMUT FREITAG; Duilio Iamonico

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.202.3.11

Issue: Vol. 202 No. 3: 13 March 2015

Type: Correspondence

Published: 2015-03-13

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.202.3.11

Page range: 235–236

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**Lectotypification of the name Polycnemum majus (Amaranthaceae s.str.)**

HELMUT FREITAG⁺⁻
Duilio Iamonico⁺⁻

Arbeitsgruppe Systematik und Morphologie der Pflanzen, Universität Kassel, 34109 Kassel, Germany

Laboratory of Phytogeography and Applied Geobotany, Section Environment and Landscape, Department PDTA, University of Rome Sapienza, 00196 Rome, Italy

Lectotypification Polycnemum majus Amaranthaceae

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Abstract

As part of a revision of the genus Polycnemum Linnaeus (1753: 35) in Europe we here present a nomenclatural study of the untypified name Polycnemum majus A. Braun ex Bogenhard (1841: 151–152). This study is also related to a joint nomenclatural investigation of the Linnaean names of Camphorosma Linnaeus (1753: 122), where we detected that most original material of C. acuta Linnaeus (1753: 122) agrees with P. majus. That matter and a corresponding formal proposal to conserve P. majus so as to maintain that name will be published elsewhere.