Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A) 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 252 342 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Asparagus aethiopicus Linnaeus , Systema Naturae , ed. 12, 2 : 245; Mantissa Plantarum : 63. 1767 . "Habitat ad Cap. b. spei." RCN: 2464. Lectotype (Jessop in Bothalia 9: 68. 1966): Herb. Linn. No. 434.6 ( LINN ) . Current name: Protasparagus aethiopicus (L.) Oberm. ( Liliaceae / Asparagaceae ). Note: Although Jessop believed the designated type to have been unavailable to Linnaeus in 1767, it appears, in fact, to be original material for the name, and is therefore accepted as a lectotype (under Art. 9.8).