Striga asiatica (L.) Kuntze, 1891

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part B), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 343-369 : 364

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Buchnera asiatica Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2: 630. 1753.

"Habitat in Zeylona, China." RCN: 4577.

Lectotype (Hepper in Rhodora 76: 46. 1974): Torén, Herb. Linn. No. 790.10, branched specimen ( LINN) .

Current name: Striga asiatica (L.) Kuntze View in CoL ( Scrophulariaceae ).

Note: Hepper argued that 790.10 (LINN) was collected by Torén in the Comores in 1750 (it is annotated "Ins. Johan."). Saldanha (in Bull. Bot. Surv. India 5: 67-68. 1963) reviewed earlier use of the name and concluded that, as it had been applied to several species, it should be rejected under (the then) Art. 69. Cramer (in Dassanayake & Fosberg, Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 3: 400. 1981) also treated the name as ambiguous. However, Musselman & Hepper (in Kew Bull. 41: 207. 1986; Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 45: 44. 1988) accept S. asiatica , as do many other authors.