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 Ranunculus asiaticus Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 552. 1753 . "Habitat in Asia vel Mauritania." RCN: 4079. Lectotype (Turland in Jarvis & al. in Taxon 54: 470. 2005): Herb. Linn. No. 715.34 ( LINN ) . Current name: Ranunculus asiaticus L. ( Ranunculaceae ). Note: Meikle (in Curtis's Bot. Mag. 181: 159-162. 1977) discussed the history of this name but did not indicate any type material. However, he ( Fl. Cyprus 1: 50. 1977) separately indicated type material at LINN without specifying a sheet number, but adding that it is "a double-flowered garden form, probably with red flowers". As there are two sheets at LINN, a formal choice of lectotype was made by Turland to remove any uncertainty as to the intended type.