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 Acalypha virginica Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 1003. 1753 , nom. cons. "Habitat in Zeylona, Virginia." RCN: 1262. Conserved type (Reveal & al. in Taxon 39: 361. 1990): Clayton 201 (BM-000038872). Generitype of Acalypha Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot. : 189. 1929). Current name: Acalypha virginica L. ( Euphorbiaceae ).