Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part O) 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 696 717 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Ophioxylon serpentinum Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 1043. 1753 . "Habitat in Zeylona." RCN: 7631. Lectotype (Monachino in Econ. Bot. 8: 353. 1954; Leeuwenberg in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 71. 1993): Herb. Hermann 4: 77, No. 398, upper specimen (BM-000628401) . Generitype of Ophioxylon Linnaeus. Current name: Rauvolfia serpentina (L.) Benth. ex Kurz ( Apocynaceae ). Note: Monachino's type statement did not distinguish between material in volumes 1 and 4 of the Hermann herbarium, but as the specimens appear to have been part of a single gathering, Art. 9.15 applies, and Monachino is accepted as having typified the name, with subsequent restriction to one of the specimens being made by Leeuwenberg.