Lantana camara L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 610-650 : 612

Lantana camara Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2: 627. 1753, typ. cons.

"Habitat in America calidiore." RCN: 4541.

Conserved type (Moldenke & Moldenke in Dassanayake & Fosberg, Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 4: 220. 1983): Herb. Linn. No. 783.4 ( LINN) .

Generitype of Lantana Linnaeus , nom. cons.

Current name: Lantana camara L. ( Verbenaceae ).

Note: Lantana camara , with the type designated by Moldenke & Moldenke, was proposed as conserved type of the genus by Jarvis (in Taxon 41: 564. 1992). This was eventually approved by the General Committee (see review of the history of this proposal by Barrie, l.c. 55: 795-796. 2006). Sanders (in Sida 22: 381-421. 2006) provided a detailed study of the type (illustrated on p. 384, f. 1), concluding that it belongs to the wild species and not to the cultigen to which the name has also been applied. As a result, he named the latter L. strigocamara R.W. Sanders.