Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part E) 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 490 515 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Euphorbia caput-medusae Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 452. 1753 . "Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 3500. Lectotype (Wijnands, Bot. Commelins : 98. 1983): [icon] "Euphorbium procumbens, ramis plurimis simplicibus squamosis, foliolis deciduis" in Burman, Rar. Afric. Pl.: 17, t. 8. 1738 (see p. 114). Current name: Euphorbia caput-medusae L. ( Euphorbiaceae ).