Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C) 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 370 473 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Cnicus benedictus Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 826. 1753 , typ. cons. "Habitat in Chio, Lemno, Hispania ad versuras agrorum." RCN: 6621. Basionym of: Centaurea benedicta (L.) L. (1763) . Lectotype (Jeffrey in Kew Bull. 22: 138. 1968): Herb. Clifford: 394, Cnicus 1 (BM-000646941) . Generitype of Cnicus Linnaeus , nom. cons. Current name: Centaurea benedicta (L.) L. ( Asteraceae ).