Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C) 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 370 473 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Cuscuta americana Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 124. 1753 . "Habitat in Virginia." RCN: 1024. Lectotype (Engelmann in Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 1: 482. 1859): Herb. Linn. No. 170.5 ( LINN ) . Current name: Cuscuta americana L. ( Cuscutaceae ). Note: Believing none of the original elements to correspond with usage, Reveal & al. (in Taxon 39: 360. 1990) proposed the name for conservation with a conserved type. The Committee for Spermatophyta, however, ruled that Engelmann had formally chosen (the post-1753) 170.5 (LINN) as lectotype , and (in Taxon 42: 876. 1993) "recommends... that this typification be accepted". This rendered the conservation proposal unnecessary and it was not recommended.