Proposal to conserve the name Capparis baducca (Capparaceae) with a conserved type

PRADO, D.E.; L.J. OAKLEY; J. PRADO

TAXON

INT ASSOC PLANT TAXONOMY

Lugar: Viena; Año: 2013 vol. 62 p. 406 - 407

0040-0262

There is still controversy and debate regarding the application of the Linnaean name Capparis baducca. The underlying taxon was recognized for the first time by Linnaeus in his work Hortus Cliffortianus (1738: 204) with the following phrase-name: "Capparis inermis, foliis ovato-oblongis per spatia confertis perennantibus", thus unmistakably indicating unarmed plants with clustered leaves. Subsequently this phrase-name was scarcely modified in Linnaeus’s Species Plantarum (1753: 504): "Capparis inermis, foliis ovato-oblongis determinate confertis perennantibus". He marked this phrase-name with an asterisk in Species Plantarum (1753: 504), thus indicating that it was a good description, according to Stearn (in Ray Soc. Publ. 140: 162. 1957). Linnaeus did not explicitly mention a herbarium specimen for this Capparis, as he did for some species published in the Species Plantarum, but he did cite one illustration by Rheede in the protologue.