Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part E) 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 490 515 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Euphorbia heterophylla Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 453. 1753 . "Habitat in America calidiore." RCN: 3504. Lectotype (Radcliffe-Smith in Bosser & al., Fl. Mascareignes 160: 94. 1982): [icon] "Tithymalus Curassavicus, Salicis & Atriplicis foliis variis, caulibus viridantibus" in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 112, f. 6. 1691; Almag. Bot.: 369. 1696. - Typotype : Herb. Sloane 98: 108 ( BM-SL ) , see p. 149. Current name: Euphorbia heterophylla L. ( Euphorbiaceae ). Note: Dressler (in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 48: 332. 1961) noted the absence of any material at LINN and interpreted the name via the Plukenet plate, though without expressly treating it as the type.