Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P) 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 718 782 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Pteris caudata Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 1075. 1753 . "Habitat in Jamaicae, Dominicae saxosis." RCN: 7810. Lectotype (Proctor in Howard, Fl. Lesser Antilles 2: 135. 1977): Herb. Linn. No. 1246.15 ( LINN ) . Current name: Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn var. caudatum (L.) Sadeb. ( Dennstaedtiaceae ). Note: Tryon (in Rhodora 43: 55. 1941) indicated type material in LINN referable to var. caudatum (L.) Sadeb. but did not make it clear which specimen was intended. Proctor appears to have been the first to make an explicit choice. Thomson & Alonso-Amelot (in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 140: 239-243. 2002) provided detailed anatomical information on the type and other material in LINN.