Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part R) 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 785 805 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Rudbeckia hirta Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 907. 1753 . "Habitat in Virginia, Canada." RCN: 6552. Lectotype (Fernald & Schubert in Rhodora 50: 173, pl. 1102. 1948): Herb. Linn. No. 1025.4 ( LINN ) . Current name: Rudbeckia hirta L. ( Asteraceae ). Note: Rudbeckia hirta L. was treated as the generitype by Britton & Brown ( Ill. Fl. N. U. S. , ed. 2, 3: 469. 1913; see McNeill & al. in Taxon 36: 382. 1987). However, under Art. 10.5, Ex. 7 (a voted example) of the Vienna Code, this is a type choice made under the American Code and is to be replaced under Art. 10.5b by Green's choice ( Prop. Brit. Bot. : 183. 1929) of R. laciniata L.