Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L) 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 610 650 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Linum usitatissimum Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 277. 1753 . "Habitat hodie inter segetes Europae australis." RCN: 2204. Lectotype (Seegeler in Taxon 38: 278, f. 1. 1989): Herb. Clifford: 114, Linum 1 (BM-000558456) . Generitype of Linum Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot. : 143. 1929). Current name: Linum usitatissimum L. ( Linaceae ). Note: Kulpa & Danert (in Kulturpflanze 3: 342. 1962) indicated a Brander collection (396.1 LINN), not received by Linnaeus until 1756, as type but it cannot be original material for the name. Rechinger ( Fl. Iranica 106: 17. 1974) indicated Clifford material as "syntypi" , but the two sheets preserved at BM are not a single collection so Art. 9.15 does not apply. Seegeler is therefore the first to have made an explicit choice of lectotype .