Ranunculus grandiflorus Linnaeus 1753

Ranunculus grandiflorus Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 555. 1753. "Habitat in Oriente." RCN: 4097. Neotype (Davis, Fl. Turkey 1: 168. 1965): Herb. Tournefort, "Ranunculus cappadocicus aconitifolio flore luteo maximo" (P-TOURN). Current name: Ranunculus grandiflorus L. (Ranunculaceae). Note: Davis (in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 23: 113. 1960) discussed the absence of material and treated the name as a nomen ambiguum but later (1965) used the name, treating a Tournefort collection at P as the type. In this, he was followed by Jelenevsky & Derviz-Sokolova (in Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 16: 117. 1979) and others. As there are no original elements for the name, this is accepted as a formal neotypification (for Linnaeus did not make a study of Tournefort’s herbarium).Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part R), pp. 785-805 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 786, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.29197