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 Cenchrus echinatus Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 1050. 1753 . "Habitat in Jamaica, Curassao." RCN: 7585. Lectotype (Veldkamp in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 31. 1993): Herb. A. van Royen No. 912.356-116 ( L ) . Generitype of Cenchrus Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot. : 193. 1929). Current name: Cenchrus echinatus L. ( Poaceae ). Note: Hitchcock (in Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 12: 127. 1908) and a number of later authors treated 1217.7 (LINN) as the type but this collection is a post-1753 addition to the herbarium and ineligible as type. Clayton & Renvoize (in Polhill, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Gramineae 3: 695. 1982) indicated a Dickinson collection from Bermuda (Herb. Sloane, BM) as a syntype , but it was not seen by Linnaeus and cannot be original material for the name.