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 Amaranthus flavus Linnaeus , Systema Naturae , ed. 10, 2 : 1269. 1759 . ["Habitat in India ."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 1406 (1763). RCN: 7184. Type not designated. Original material: Herb. Linn. No. 1117.23 ( LINN ) . Current name: Amaranthus hypochondriacus L. ( Amaranthaceae ). Note: Sauer (in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 54: 111. 1967) described Linnaeus' diagnosis as ambiguous, and noted the existence of 1117.23 (LINN) but without explicitly treating it as the type.