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 Mirabilis jalapa Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 177. 1753 . "Habitat in India utraque." RCN: 1400. Lectotype (Larsen in Morat, Fl. Cambodge Laos Vietnam 24: 108. 1989): Herb. Linn. No. 240.2 ( LINN ) . Generitype of Mirabilis Linnaeus. Current name: Mirabilis jalapa L. ( Nyctaginaceae ). Note: Kellogg (in Howard, Fl. Lesser Antilles 4: 181. 1988) indicated unseen material in the Clifford herbarium (BM) as "type" . However, as there are two sheets associated with this name, which are not part of a single gathering, this is not an effective choice and Art. 9.15 does not apply. Although Le Duc (in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 67. 1993) accepted a single Clifford sheet (BM) as lectotype , Larsen had, in the meantime, designated a sheet in LINN as type and this appears to be the earliest explicit choice.