Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C) 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 370 473 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Crocus sativus Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 36. 1753 . "Habitat in Alpibus Helveticis, Pyrenaeis, Lusitanicis, Tracicis." RCN: 284. Lectotype (Mathew in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 39. 1993): Herb. Clifford: 18, Crocus 1 (BM-000557641) . Generitype of Crocus Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock in Amer. J. Bot. 10: 513. 1923). Current name: Crocus sativus L. ( Iridaceae ). Note: Labani & El-Gadi (in Jafri & El-Gadi, Fl. Libya 81: 21. 1980) appear to indicate both Clifford and LINN material as type; this choice is therefore ineffective.