Rubus fruticosus
Appearance
Rubus fruticosus L. is the ambiguous name of a European blackberry species in the genus Rubus in the rose family. The name has been interpreted in several ways:
- The species represented by the type specimen of Rubus fruticosus L., which is also the type specimen of the genus Rubus.[1] This specimen is considered to match the species R. plicatus, in Rubus subgenus Rubus, section Rubus.[2][3]
- Various species consistent with Linnaeus' original description of the species, which was based on a mixture of specimens now considered to match Rubus ulmifolius [citation needed] and R. plicatus
- a species aggregate (group of similar species) Rubus fruticosus agg. (a nomen ambiguum) that includes most (or rarely all) of a group called Rubus subgenus Rubus[3] (or less often: Rubus section Rubus [sensu latissimo] [4][5]):
- in a narrow sense, sometimes separated as the section Glandulosus (alternative name: subsection Hiemales), with about 289 microspecies.[3] In this sense the species aggregate does not include the type of the genus Rubus.
- in a broad sense: (1) (i) sections Glandulosus and Rubus [sensu stricto] (in non-British systems, these two sections are classified together as section Rubus [sensu lato], section Glandulosus being called subsection Hiemales and section Rubus [sensu stricto] being called subsection Rubus) [6][5][7] or (ii) "most of" these sections [8] ; or (2) sections Glandulosus, Rubus [sensu stricto] and Corylifolii.[3] Section Rubus [sensu stricto] (about 20 microspecies) are probably hybrids involving members of section Glandulosus with either R. idaeus or R. allegheniensis.[3] Section Corylifolii (about 24 microspecies) are probably hybrids involving members of section Glandulosus with R. caesius.[3]
- even more broadly, including all the taxa in the subgenus Rubus[5][9]
As used by various authors
Apart from the established meaning of Rubus fruticosus L. as R. plicatus, the name R. fruticosus has been incorrectly applied to several species, including:
- Rubus fructicosus Weihe & Nees, Rubi Germ. 24, 1822 -> Rubus montanus Lib. ex Lej., Fl. Spa 2: 317, 1813 (or part of Rubus montanus) [10][11]
- Rubus fruticosus G.N.Jones -> Rubus vestitus Weihe [12]
- Rubus fruticosus L. ex Dierb. -> Rubus vulgaris Weihe & Nees [12]
- Rubus fruticosus Lour. -> Rubus cochinchinensis Tratt. [12]
References
- ^ Farr, E. R. and G. Zijlstra (ed.), Index Nominum Genericorum, Smithsonian Institution, retrieved 15 May 2015
- ^ "Rubus plicatus". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f Stace, C. (2010). New Flora of the British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521707725.
- ^ Rubus. In: Flora of China [1]
- ^ a b c Jarvis, C.E. (1992). "Seventy-Two Proposals for the Conservation of Types of Selected Linnaean Generic Names, the Report of Subcommittee 3C on the Lectotypification of Linnaean Generic Names". Taxon. 41 (3): 552–583. doi:10.2307/1222833. JSTOR 1222833.
- ^ [2]
- ^ "Rubus L. subg. Rubus". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ "Rubus fruticosus auct". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
- ^ "Rubus fruticosus L. sensu typo". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ Mansfeld, Rudolf (2001). Mansfeld's Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops ((Except Ornamentals)). Springer Science & Business Media. p. 436. ISBN 978-3-540-41017-1.
- ^ KIRÁLYI, G et al. Reopening an old chapter: A revised taxonomic and evolutionary concept of the Rubus montanus group. in: Preslia 89(4):309–331 ·December 2017 [3] (accessed: 27 Apr 2019)
- ^ a b c The Plant List, retrieved 5 August 2016
External links
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