Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part E) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 490 515 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Eclipta prostrata (Linnaeus) Linnaeus , Mantissa Plantarum Altera : 286. 1771 . "Habitat in India ." RCN: 6514. Basionym: Verbesina prostrata L. (1753) . Lectotype (Wijnands, Bot. Commelins : 74. 1983): [icon] " Chrysanthemum Maderaspatanum, Menthae arvensis folio & facie, floribus bigemellis, ad foliorum alas, pediculis curtis " in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 118, f. 5. 1691; Almag. Bot.: 100. 1696. - Typotype : Herb. Sloane 94: 175 ( BM-SL ) . Current name: Eclipta prostrata (L.) L. ( Asteraceae ). Note: D'Arcy (in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 62: 1102. 1975) indicated 1020.4 or 1020.5 (LINN) as the type of the basionym, presumably in error as both are associated with the name " Eclipta latifolia " rather than V. prostrata . Neither they, nor 1020.7 (LINN), the post-1753 Patrick Browne collection treated as the lectotype by Kupicha (in Davis, Fl. Turkey 5: 46. 1975), are original material for the name. Grierson (in Dassanayake & Fosberg, Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 1: 212. 1980) treated material in Herb. Plukenet ( BM-SL ) as "type" but this would not have been seen by Linnaeus and is not original material either. Wijnands' 1983 choice of the Plukenet illustration as lectotype is therefore accepted here.