Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C) 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 370 473 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Cliffortia polygonifolia Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 1038. 1753 . "Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 7496. Lectotype (Stearn, Introd. Linnaeus' Sp. Pl. (Ray Soc. ed.): 47. 1957): [icon] " Cliffortia foliis linearibus pilosis : Femina " in Linnaeus, Hort. Cliff.: 501, t. 32. 1738. - Voucher: Herb. Clifford: 501, Cliffortia 3 ( BM ) . Generitype of Cliffortia Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot. : 192. 1929). Current name: Cliffortia polygonifolia L. ( Rosaceae ). Note: Oliver & Fellingham (in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 35. 1993) designated a Clifford sheet as lectotype , but this choice is pre-dated by that of Stearn. Weimarck ( Monogr : Cliffortia : 83. 1934) noted the Hort. Cliff. illustration as "a good figure" adding "the type specimen has disappeared".