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TYPIFICATION OF MIMOSA NATANS LINN. F. (MIMOSACEAE)
Author(s) -
Panigrahi G.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1221292
Subject(s) - homonym (biology) , typification , biology , botany , taxon , nomenclature , taxonomy (biology) , genus
Summary Mimosa nutans Linn. f. (1782) typified by ‘Hab. in Tranquebar (1777), Koenig’ s.n. (1228.4–LINN) is established as a validly described legitimate name, with its own type, not a nomen confusum. Since Neptunia natans (Linn. f.) Druce (1917) is a later heterotypic homonym of N. natans Theob. (1883) [as ‘(Willd.) Theob.’], N. triquetra (Willd.) Benth. is the correct name for the terrestrial taxon, M. natans Linn. f., the former based on Desmanthus triquetrus Willd. (1806) [ Mimosa triquetra Vahl (1794), nom. illeg.; M. natans Linn. f.].