Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part H) 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 557 585 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Hyacinthus orchioides Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 318. 1753 . "Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 2500. Lectotype (Stearn in Ann. Mus. Goulandris 8: 210, f. 17. 1990): [icon] " Hyacinthus orchioides Africanus , major, bifolius maculatus; flore sulphureo, obsoleto, majore" in Breyn, Prodr. Fasc. Rar. Pl.: 24, t. 11, f. 2. 1739. Current name: Lachenalia orchioides (L.) Aiton ( Liliaceae / Hyacinthaceae ).