Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C) 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 370 473 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Carduus altissimus Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 824. 1753 . "Habitat in Carolina." RCN: 5966. Lectotype (Reveal in Jarvis & Turland in Taxon 47: 356. 1998): [icon] " Cirsium altissimum , laciniato folio, subtus tomentoso " in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 1: 81, t. 69, f. 80. 1732. - Voucher: Herb. Sherard No. 1639 ( OXF ) . Current name: Cirsium altissimum (L.) Hill ( Asteraceae ).