Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L) 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 610 650 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Linum africanum Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 280. 1753 . "Habitat in Africa." RCN: 2220. Neotype (Rogers in Nordic J. Bot. 1: 715. 1981): Herb. Linn. No. 396.34 ( LINN ) . Current name: Linum africanum L. ( Linaceae ). Note: Although the collection indicated by Rogers as the holotype was almost certainly a post-1753 addition to the herbarium, the absence of any original material means that this can be treated as a neotype under Art. 9.8.