Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A) 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 252 342 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Adansonia bahobab Linnaeus , Species Plantarum , ed. 2, 2 : 960. 1763 , nom. illeg. "Habitat in Senegal, Aegypto." RCN: 5003. Replaced synonym: Adansonia digitata L. (1759) . Lectotype (Robyns in Dassanayake & Fosberg, Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 1: 67. 1980): Herb. Linn. No. 862.1 ( LINN ) . Current name: Adansonia digitata L. ( Bombacaceae ). Note: This name is nomenclaturally superfluous as it is based on all the original elements of the earlier A. digitata L. (1759) .