Fritillaria pyrenaica L., 1758

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part F), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 516-528 : 522

Fritillaria pyrenaica Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1: 304. 1753.

“Habitat in Pyrenaeis.” RCN: 2397.

Type not designated.

Original material: Herb. Linn. No. 421.2 (LINN); Herb. Burser III: 62 (UPS).

Current name: Fritillaria pyrenaica L. ( Liliaceae ).

Note: Fritillaria pyrenaica L. was treated as the generitype by Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U. S., ed. 2, 1: 505. 1913 (see McNeill & al. in Taxon 36: 372. 1987). However, under Art. 10.5, Ex. 7 (a voted example) of the Vienna Code, this is a type choice made under the American Code and is to be replaced under Art. 10.5b by Hitchcock’s choice ( Prop. Brit. Bot.: 145. 1929) of E. meleagris L.