Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part D) 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 474 489 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Datura metel Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 179. 1753 . "Habitat in Asia, Africa." RCN: 1421. Lectotype (Timmerman in Pharm. J. 118: 572. 1927): Herb. Clifford: 55, Datura 2 γ (BM-000557992) . Current name: Datura metel L. ( Solanaceae ). Note: See detailed discussion by Hadkins & al. (in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 125: 298-299. 1998), including an illustration of the lectotype (as f. 4).