Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M) 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 651 689 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Medicago minima (Linnaeus) Linnaeus , Flora Anglica : 21. 1754 , nom. inval. Type not relevant. Current name: Medicago minima (L.) Bartal. ( Fabaceae : Faboideae ). Note: Shinners (in Rhodora 58: 3. 1956) questioned whether the recombination of var. minima at species rank was made by Linnaeus (in Fl. Anglica : 21. 1954). Shinners suggested that this is an error of interpretation, as Linnaeus subsequently continued to treat the taxon as a variety of M. polymorpha . Shinners accepted Bartalini (1776) as the first to make the combination at species rank, as did Stearn ( Introd. Ray's Syn. Meth. Stirp. Brit. (Ray Soc. ed.): 57. 1973). Greuter (in Candollea 44: 563. 1989) disagreed, arguing that the combination dates from 1754. Brummitt & Meikle (in Watsonia 19: 181-183. 1993) argued, however, that there are typographical variants of the thesis which make it unreasonable to interpret names such as this (though they focussed particularly on two names in Primula ) as a new combination.