Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part G) 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 529 556 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Gomphrena sessilis Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 225. 1753 . "Habitat in India." RCN: 1684. Basionym of: Illecebrum sessile (L.) L. (1762) . Lectotype (Fawcett & Rendle, Fl. Jamaica 3: 140. 1914; Mears in Taxon 29: 89. 1980): Herb. Hermann 2: 9, No. 116 (BM-000621528) . Current name: Altemanthera sessilis (L.) DC. ( Amaranthaceae ). Note: Fawcett & Rendle's original indication of the Hermann material as type was restricted by Mears to the material in vol. 2: 9 (BM). Mears' choice (1 Feb 1980) appears to narrowly pre-date that of Townsend (in Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 1: 49. Feb 1980), who instead chose the material in vol. 2: 78.