External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:25773-1
- Publication
- Species Plantarum
- Collation
- 2: 1190
- Date of Publication
- 1 May 1753
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Bombacaceae
Original Data
- Remarks
- Benth. & Hook. f i. 209 BAOBAB, Adans. Fam. ii. 399 (1763). OPHELUS, Lour. Fl.Cochinch. 412 (1790)
Nomenclatural Notes
Status: nom. inval. Linnaeus published Adansonia as a monotypic genus with a single species (A. digitata); he did not provide any description, but referred to descriptions in earlier publications (not acceptable; vide Melbourne Code Art. 38.5 last sentence). Generic names in Linnaeus’s Species plantarum, ed. 1 (1753) are associated with the first subsequent description given under those names in Linnaeus’s Genera plantarum, ed. 5 (1754) (vide Art. 13.4). But Adansonia is not included in the 1754 publication