- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30005049-2
- Publication
- Collectanea Botanica; or, Figures and Botanical Illustrations of Rare and Curious Exotic Plants. London
- Collation
- pt. 4: sub t. 19
- Date of Publication
- 21 Oct 1821
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Myrtaceae
Type Information
- Type Name
- P. officinalis Lindl. (Myrtus pimenta L.)
Remarks
Protologue (quoted): The Allspice plant of the West Indies considered a distinct genus by Dr. Solander, who has called it Myrcia in his Manuscripts. It has a straight style, a stigma somewhat capitate, an ovary with two cells, each containing a single ovulum hanging by its middle from the top of the dissepiment, its seeds solitary, with the organization of Myrtus. Myrcia being very near Myrsine in sound, we would propose that the specific be altered to a generic appellation, and that the plant be called Pimenta officinalis
Links
- Same citation as
- Pimenta Lindl., Coll. Bot. sub t. 19 (1821-25).