79. Phalangium spicatum Houtt., Nat. Hist. II(12): Aanwyz. Plaat. [2], 115, tab. 80, fig. 2. 1780. Lectotypus (designated here by Callmander & Fumeaux): SOUTH AFRICA: Auge s.n. [?] (G-PREL [G00818067]!). = Micranthus plantagineus Eckl., Topogr. Verz. Pflanzensamml. Ecklon: 43. 1827. Notes. – The single element of original material in the Cape herbarium is designated here as the lectotype. It is a good match for the plate. Micranthus spicatus (L.) Heyn. prevents the transfer of Houttuyn’s epithet to the genus Micranthus (Pers.) Eckl. See GOLDBLATT et al. (2013: 140-142) for an interesting discussion on M. plantagineus. The latter authors considered the plate in Nat. Hist. II(12): tab. 80, fig. 2. 1780 to be the type of Houttuyn’s name (i.e., they implicitly designated it as the lectotype), but the existence of original material supersedes their lectotypification.

Published as part of Wijnands, Dirk Onno, Heniger, Johannes, Veldkamp, Jan Frederik, Fumeaux, Nicolas & Callmander, Martin W., 2017, The botanical legacy of Martinus Houttuyn (1720 - 1798) in Geneva, pp. 155-198 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 184, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a11, http://zenodo.org/record/5721887