Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part T) 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 878 905 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Terminalia catappa Linnaeus , Systema Naturae , ed. 12, 2 : 674; Mantissa Plantarum : 128. 1767 . "Habitat in India." RCN: 7625. Lectotype (Byrnes in Contr. Queensland Herb. 20: 38. 1977): Herb. Linn. No. 1222.1 ( LINN ) . Generitype of Terminalia Linnaeus , nom. cons. Current name: Terminalia catappa L. ( Combretaceae ). Note: Terminalia Linnaeus , nom. cons. against Bucida L. and Adamaram Adans. Smith (in Brittonia 23: 405. 1971) regarded Exell (in J. Bot. 69: 125. 1931) as having typified the name by a sheet in LINN but Exell notes, in the context of establishing a generitype , that T. catappa is the only species represented in LINN.