Title:
Veronica spuria (LINN 26.30)
Type:
Image
Licence:
CC BY-NC 4.0
Rights holder:
The Linnean Society of London
Collection:
Herbarium Linnaeus
Reference number:
LINN 26.30
Genus number:
26
Sheet number:
30
Filed as name:
Veronica serpyllifolia Linnaeus
Filed as genus:
Veronica
Filed as species:
serpyllifolia
Ex collection:
Linnaeus, Carl
Collection history:
Linnaeus, C.
Linnaeus note:
13 serpyllifolia
Cronquist number:
296
Pinned with:
26.31
Institution code:
LINN
Basis of record:
PreservedSpecimen
Scientific name:
Veronica serpyllifolia L.
Family:
Scrophulariaceae
Genus:
Veronica
Species:
serpyllifolia
Scientific name author:
Linnaeus, Carl
Type status:
Lectotype : Herb. Linn. No. 26.30 (LINN)
Date identified:
1981
Identified by:
Cramer in Dassanayake & Fosberg (ed.), Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 3 : 437 (1981)
ID references:
Species Plantarum 1 : 12 (1753)
ID remarks:
Pennell (in Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia Monogr. 1: 335. 1935) designated what he felt to be the more glabrous of the specimens in LINN as type. As it is difficult to be sure which collection was intended, Cramer's choice (which has been followed by later authors) is accepted here.
Location remarks:
"Habitat in Europa & America septentrionali ad vias, agros."