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 Laurus borbonia Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 370. 1753 . "Habitat in Carolina, Virginia." RCN: 2918. Lectotype (Kopp in Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 14: 44. 1966): [icon] " Laurus Carolinensis , foliis acuminatis, baccis caeruleis, pediculis longis rubris insidentibus " in Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina 1: 63, t. 63. 1731. Current name: Persea borbonia (L.) Spreng. ( Lauraceae ).