Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part O) 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 696 717 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Osteospermum spinosum Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 923. 1753 , typ. cons. "Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 6681. Conserved type (Norlindh, Stud. Calenduleae 1: 219. 1943): Herb. Linn. No. 1037.1 ( LINN ) . Generitype of Osteospermum Linnaeus , nom. cons. Current name: Osteospermum spinosum L. ( Asteraceae ). Note: Osteospermum spinosum , with the type designated by Norlindh, was proposed as conserved type of the genus by Jarvis (in Taxon 41: 567. 1992). This was eventually approved by the General Committee (see review of the history of this proposal by Barrie, l.c. 55: 795-796. 2006).