Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P) 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 718 782 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Phyllanthus epiphyllanthus Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 981. 1753 . "Habitat in America calidiore, Surinamo, Jamaica, Carolina, Porto Rico." RCN: 2152. Replaced synonym of: Xylophylla latifolia L. (1771) , nom. illeg . Lectotype (Webster in J. Arnold Arbor . 37: 2. 1956): Herb. Clifford: 439, Phyllanthus 1 (BM-000647366) . Current name: Phyllanthus epiphyllanthus L. ( Euphorbiaceae ). Note: Merrill ( Interpret. Rumph. Herb. Amb.: 208. 1917) indicated a Rumphius element as the type but, although it appears in a 1759 account of the species, it is not cited in the protologue and is therefore not original material for the name.