Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part B) 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 343 369 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Bauhinia scandens Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 374. 1753 . "Habitat in Malabaria." RCN: 2947. Lectotype (de Wit in Reinwardtia 3: 391. 1956): [icon] " Naga-valli vel Mandaru-valli " in Rheede, Hort. Malab. 8: 55, t. 29. 1688. Current name: Bauhinia scandens L. ( Fabaceae : Caesalpinioideae ). Note: De Wit (in Reinwardtia 3: 391. 1956) indicated the cited Rheede plate as the sole basis for this name. Were this not to be accepted as a formal typification, Rudd (in Dassanayake & Fosberg, Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 7: 41. 1991) explicitly indicated the plate as the type.