Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part J) 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 599 607 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Jatropha multifida Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 1006. 1753 . "Habitat in America meridionali." RCN: 7293. Lectotype (Radcliffe-Smith in Polhill, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Euphorbiaceae : 354. 1987): [icon] " Manihot folio tenuiter diviso " in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 2: 217, t. 173, f. 213. 1732. Current name: Jatropha multifida L. ( Euphorbiaceae ). Note: Fawcett & Rendle ( Fl. Jamaica 4: 313. 1920) indicated 1141.9 (LINN) as type but this collection was received by Linnaeus from Browne only in 1758, so it cannot be original material for the name.