Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part S) 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 806 877 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Scabiosa leucanthema Linnaeus , Amoenitates Academicae 4 : 477. 1759 , orth. var. RCN: 801. Type not designated. Original material: as Scabiosa leucantha . Current name: Cephalaria leucantha (L.) Roem. & Schult. ( Dipsacaceae ). Note: As noted by Stearn (in Geck & Pressler, Festschr. Claus Nissen : 631. 1974), this is an orthographic variant of S. leucantha L. (1753) .