- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60471780-2
- Publication
- Gardeners' Chronicle. London
- Collation
- 1862(18): 404
- Date of Publication
- 3 May 1862
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Cupressaceae
Nomenclatural Notes
Status: nom. inval. Lindley’s intended to propose “B. orientalis var. falcata,” but he did not associate the varietal epithet with the species name (see Melbourne Code Art. 35.2). Protologue: “BIOTA FALCATA {a Garden form). We already possess in gardens several varieties of the beautiful Biota orientalis; the Japanese have others; and a further addition to the series of forms appears in the plant now about to be mentioned … it is different from any of the Biotas in cultivation, as far as we can judge from the examination of dried specimens, and thus requires a name. That which we propose refers to the long curved spines of the cones; and we see no need of adding the word orientalis, which is not required by Botanists, and can be of no use to others.”