Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M) 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 651 689 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Medeola asparagoides Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 339. 1753 . "Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 2616. Lectotype (Jessop in Bothalia 9: 82. 1966): [icon] "Asparagus Africanus, scandens, Myrti folio et Myrti folio angustiore" in Tilli, Cat. Pl. Hort. Pisani: 17, t. 12, f. 1, 2. 1723. Current name: Asparagus asparagoides (L.) W. Wight ( Liliaceae / Asparagaceae ). Note: See Kleinjan & Edwards (in S. African J. Bot. 65: 28. 1999) who note that the type figure is inadequate to distinguish between the forms of the taxon that they recognise.