Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part R) 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 785 805 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Rivina humilis Linnaeus var. scandens Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 122. 1753 . RCN: 1008. Neotype (Greuter in Greuter & al., Fl. Republ. Cuba , ser. A, 6(3): 18. 2002): [icon] " Rivina " in Plumier, Nov. Pl. Amer.: t. 39, f. [3] a-g . 1703. Current name: Trichostigma octandrum (L.) H. Walter ( Phytolaccaceae ). Note: Although Kellogg (in Howard, Fl. Lesser Antilles 4: 193. 1988) stated "Type: Plumier", the precise element intended is unclear. Linnaeus' variety has Plumier's " Rivina scandens racemosa, amplis solani foliis, baccis violaceis" as its diagnosis, but the illustration (t. 39) accompanying this 1703 work is for the genus as a whole, including both this and " Rivina humilis racemosa, baccis puniceis", so it cannot be assumed to depict only one of them, and cannot be regarded as original material for either. However, in the absence of original material for the name, Greuter's treatment of the plate as the lectotype is accepted as a neotypification.