Oenothera missourensis Sims

, Bot. Mag. 39: t. 1592 (1813).
IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:173188-2
Publication
Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed ... London
Collation
39: t. 1592
Date of Publication
1 Nov 1813
Family as entered in IPNI
Onagraceae

Type Information

Locality
& collection: Found by Mr. Nuttall in the neighbourhood of the Missouri in North-America, who brought many novel and curious plants from that country; some of which that flowered at Liverpool last year, he kindly transmitted us recent specimens of ... Flowers in June and July. Communicated from the Sloane-Square Nursery by Messrs. J. and J. T. Fraser

Remarks

Sims mentioned the locality as the neighbourhood of the Missouri and coined the epithet missourensis [some works correct the epithet to missouriensis, but such a correction is not needed]

Links

Basionym of
Megapterium missourense (Sims) Spach, Hist. Nat. Vég. (Spach) 4: 364 (1835).
Basionym of
Oenothera macrocarpa var. missourensis (Sims) Carrière, Rev. Hort. [Paris]. 56: 83 (1884).
Duplicate citation of
Oenothera missouriensis Sims, Bot. Mag. 39: t. 1592 (1813), orth. var.