Nomenclatural type of the Linnaean name Sibthorpia africana and its synonym Sibthorpia balearica (Plantaginaceae, Sibthorpieae)

Abstract

AbstractThe nomenclatural type of the Linnaean name Sibthorpia africana (Plantaginaceae, Sibthorpieae) is discussed and revised. An illustration published by Shaw in 1738 is selected as the lectotype of the name. Sibthorpia balearica is another name in this group, published by Knoche in 1922, and treated in this paper as a heterotypic synonym of the Linnaean name. This name had previously been lectotypified by Hedberg in 1955 from a specimen kept at K. This typification is narrowed to a single specimen by a “second‐step” lectotypification.