Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L) 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 610 650 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Lobelia cardinalis Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 930. 1753 . "Habitat in Virginia." RCN: 6749. Lectotype (McVaugh in Rhodora 38: 276. 1936): Herb. Linn. No. 1051.19 ( LINN ) . Generitype of Lobelia Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot. : 184. 1929). Current name: Lobelia cardinalis L. ( Campanulaceae ). Note: Lobelia dortmanna was treated as the generitype by Britton & Brown ( Ill Fl. N. U. S. , ed. 2, 3: 299. 1913; see McNeill & al. in Taxon 36: 377. 1987). However, under Art. 10.5, Ex. 7 (a voted example) of the Vienna Code, this is a type choice made under the American Code and is to be replaced under Art. 10.5b by Green's choice ( Prop. Brit. Bot. : 184. 1929) of Lobelia cardinalis L.