Blechnum indicum Burm. f.

Mazumdar, Jaideep, Callmander, Martin W. & Fumeaux, Nicolas, 2019, Typification and nomenclature of the ferns described in N. L. Burman’s Flora Indica, Candollea 74 (1), pp. 93-109 : 96

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15553/c2019v741a10

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5711257

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/59418782-FFB2-FFE8-FCAA-FCE14A81F854

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scientific name

Blechnum indicum Burm. f.
status

 

Blechnum indicum Burm. f. View in CoL , Fl. Ind.: 231. 1768 [nom. cons. prop., in prep.].

Telmatoblechnum indicum (Burm. f.) Perrie, D.J. Ohlsen & Brownsey View in CoL in Taxon 63: 755. 2014.

Typus: AUSTRALIA. New South Wales: Evans Head behind surf shed, 18.XI.1972, Coveny 4712 ( NSW [ NSW267420 About NSW ] image seen ; iso-: A, AD, BM [ BM001048200 ] image seen, BRI [ BRI-AQ0020702 ] image seen, G, K [ K001092743 , K001092744 ] images seen, L, LE, TNS, UC [ UC1431736 ] image seen) [typ. cons. prop., in prep.].

Notes. – BURMAN (1768: 231) ’s description was based on a Pryon collection from Java. Asingle Pryon collection is preserved in G-PREL [G00800023] ( Fig. 2 View Fig ). It bears in Pryon’s handwriting the polynomial cited in the protologue (“ Filix lonchitidis facie alis denticulatis dupliciter auriculatis ”) and undoubtedly corresponds to the description.

CHAMBERS & FARRANT (1998a: 710; 2001: 315) erroneously stated that the type was lost and replaced by the extant Pryon specimen mentioned above, which would not match the description of the species and thus the plants currently known as Blechnum indicum , but the widespread Asplenium longissimum Blume published in 1828 ( BLUME, 1828), as correctly determined by F. Ballard (on Sept. 10, 1951). They designated therefore a neotype.

As the Pryon specimen clearly represents the type of Burman’s name, making it the oldest available name for A. longissimum , Chambers & Farrant’s neotypification cannot be accepted. In order to enable the further use of both names and to preserve nomenclatural stability ( TURLAND et al., 2018: Art. 14.2), a proposal to conserve Burman’s name with a conserved type is needed (MAZUMDAR et al., in prep.). The gathering selected by Chambers & Ferrant as neotype will be retained as conserved type.

NSW

Royal Botanic Gardens, National Herbarium of New South Wales

A

Harvard University - Arnold Arboretum

AD

State Herbarium of South Australia

BM

Bristol Museum

BRI

Queensland Herbarium

G

Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève

K

Royal Botanic Gardens

L

Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Leiden University branch

LE

Servico de Microbiologia e Imunologia

TNS

National Museum of Nature and Science

UC

Upjohn Culture Collection

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Polypodiales

Family

Blechnaceae

Genus

Blechnum

Loc

Blechnum indicum Burm. f.

Mazumdar, Jaideep, Callmander, Martin W. & Fumeaux, Nicolas 2019
2019
Loc

Telmatoblechnum indicum (Burm. f.) Perrie, D.J. Ohlsen & Brownsey

Perrie, D. J. Ohlsen & Brownsey 2014: 755
2014
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