Lepraria antiquitatis (L.) Ach.

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part B), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 343-369 : 368

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scientific name	Lepraria antiquitatis (L.) Ach.
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Byssus antiquitatis Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2: 1168. 1753.

"Habitat in aedium muris antiquissimis." RCN: 8404.

Type not designated.

Original material: none traced.

Current name: Lepraria antiquitatis (L.) Ach. (Leprariaceae).

Note: Ross & Irvine (in Taxon 16: 185. 1967) stated that the application of the name is uncertain. See Laundon (in Lichenologist 24: 340. 1992), who suggested that B. antiquitatis L. might be of mineral origin.