Group: Dicot Rank: species Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Bayer, 3rd, D, 275

Authors:

Linnaeus, Carl von

Published In: Species Plantarum 2: 1009. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: Habitat in Zeylona, China

Distribution: Sri Lanka, China

Type Specimens

• LT: ; ; LT designated by Wunderlin in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 65: 329 (1978). However, accrding to Jeffrey, 1980, this should not be considered type material because "there is no evidence that this specimen was the basis of the Linnaean description". See Jarvis (The Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project) for further commentary on the controversy surrounding this name.

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
Concept: Andean Bryophytes Bolivia Checklist Catalogue of New World Grasses Ecuador Catalogue Flora Mesoamericana Madagascar Catalogue Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Moss Flora of China Peru Checklist Philippine Bryophytes System    details

• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Rosanae Takht.
• order:  Cucurbitales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl
• family:  !!Cucurbitaceae Juss.
• genus:  !Momordica L.

Other names for this basionym:

**Luffa cylindrica (L.) T. Durand & H. Durand

Projects: Bolivia , China , Ecuador , Madagascar , Mesoamericana , Pakistan , Panama , Peru

Keywords: BOL, CEC, FCC, FNA, FVG