Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part G) 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 529 556 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Genista germanica Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 710. 1753 . "Habitat in Germania." RCN: 5211. Lectotype (Gibbs in Turland & Jarvis in Taxon 46: 470. 1997): Herb. Burser XXII: 29 ( UPS ) . Current name: Genista germanica L. ( Fabaceae : Faboideae ). Note: Gibbs (in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 27: 70. 1966) simultaneously designated both 892.21 (LINN) and van Royen material (L) as holotypes - an ineffective choice.