- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77211292-1
- Publication
- A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants: comprising complete descriptions of the different orders; together with the characters of the genera and species, and an enumeration of the cultivated varieties ... the scientific names accentuated, their etymologies explained, and the classes and orders illustrated by engravings, and preceded by introductions to the Linnaean and natural systems, and a glossary of the terms used ... London
- Collation
- 4(1): 169
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Menyanthaceae
Type Information
- Locality
- Native of Tavoy, in bogs
- Distribution Of Types
- Burma (Myanmar)
Nomenclatural Notes
(as parviflora)
Remarks
Wallich (1831) published Villarsia parvifolia (nom. nud.). George Don (l.c.) validated the Wallich name as V. parviflora (Wall. Cat. no. 4351) (sic) and remarked Flowers small. He did not mention the epithet “parvifolia”. In his description of Limnanthemum parvifolium, Grisebach (1845) mentioned the leaves as parvis, but did not mention flowers, and referred to “Villarsia parvifolia Wall. cat. 4351! (v.s. incompl.)” (sic). He did not refer to G. Don. Since both epithets can be correct and since G. Don and Grisebach referred to Wallich, it is evident that one of the epithets is an error. Jackson (Index Kewensis 2(2): 1203. 1895) accepted V. parvifolia and rejected V. parviflora as a “sphalm.” (see Shenzhen Code Art. 61.3)