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 Caryocar nuciferum Linnaeus , Mantissa Plantarum Altera : 247. 1771 . "Habitat in Berbices & Essequebo." RCN: 3961. Type not designated. Original material: none traced. Generitype of Caryocar Linnaeus. Current name: Caryocar nucifera L. ( Caryocaraceae ). Note: This name was evidently based on an Allemand description, but Linnaeus may never have seen a specimen (see Prance in Fl. Neotropica 12: 34. 1973).