Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part V) 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 911 926 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Verbascum thapsus Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 177. 1753 . "Habitat in Europae glareosis sterilibus." RCN: 1404. Lectotype (Huber-Morath in Denkschr. Schweiz. Naturf. Ges. 87: 43. 1971): Herb. Linn. No. 242.1 ( LINN ) . Generitype of Verbascum Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot. : 132. 1929). Current name: Verbascum thapsus L. ( Scrophulariaceae ). Note: Although Huber-Morath did not explicitly cite the sheet number of 242.1 (LINN), it is the only sheet there associated with this name and is accepted here as the lectotype .