Scytanthus Hook.

, Hooker's Icon. Pl. 605, 625 (1844), nom. illeg.
IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:329938-2
Publication
Hooker's Icones Plantarum; or figures, with brief descriptive characters and remarks of new or rare plants. London
Collation
605, 625
Date of Publication
Jan 1844
Family as entered in IPNI
Asclepiadaceae

Type Information

Type Name
S. gordonii (Masson) W. J. Hooker (Stapelia gordonii Masson)

Nomenclatural Notes

Status: nom. illeg. later homonym

Remarks

later homonym (non Skytanthus Meyen 1834, see Art 53.2, Ex. 8, ICN 2018); nom. syn. of non Hoodia Sweet ex Decaisne (1844).

Links

Later homonym of
Skytanthus Meyen, Reise Erde 1: 376 (1834).
Has later homonym
Scytanthus Liebm., Förh. Skand. Naturf. Möte 1844: 183 (1847), nom. illeg.
Has later homonym
Scytanthus T.Anderson ex Benth. & Hook.f., Gen. Pl. [Bentham & Hooker f.] 2(2): 1093 (1876), nom. illeg.
Same citation as
Scytanthus Hook., Icon. Pl. 7: t. 605-625 (1844).