Turner 2016 (Article) Billbergia, Tillandsia

Rather for the nomenclaturist than for the scientific botanist: The Botanical Cabinet of Conrad Loddiges & Sons

Author(s):—I.M. Turner

Publication:—Taxon 65(5): 1107–1149. (2016)

Abstract:—A selection of names appearing in the Botanical Cabinet, a serial work published by the nursery company of Conrad
Loddiges & Sons between 1817 and 1833, is reviewed. Many names are here lectotypified to plates published in the Botanical
Cabinet. The new combinations Pseuderanthemum maculatum (G.Lodd.) I.M.Turner and Wahlenbergia loddigesii (A.DC.)
I.M.Turner are made. Erica aristata var. parva I.M.Turner is proposed as an avowed substitute for E. coruscans var. minor
L.Bolus. The accepted name for a number of species should change for a variety of nomenclatural reasons: Cirrhaea loddigesii
Lindl. becomes Cirrhaea obtusata Lindl., Erica peziza G.Lodd. becomes Erica nivalis Andrews, Passiflora racemosa Brot.
becomes Passiflora princeps G.Lodd., Phyllanthus lanceolarius (Roxb.) Müll.Arg. becomes Phyllanthus fraxinifolius G.Lodd.,
Rhododendron myrtifolium Schott & Kotschy ex Schott becomes Rhododendron kotschyi Simonk.

Keywords:—angiosperms; George Loddiges; nomenclature; typification

Taxonomy:—Tillandsia amoena Smith & Downs (1979: 1981) typified the Loddiges name to a specimen in the University of Cambridge Herbarium that came from Lindley’s collection. The only specimen that fits these criteria actually came from the garden of the Horticultural Society, not Loddiges nursery. The specimen is therefore effectively a neotype, but the Loddiges plate represents original material and is here designated as the lectotype. (p.1146).