Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part R) 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 785 805 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Ranunculus acris Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 554. 1753 . "Habitat in Europae pratis, pascuis." RCN: 4089. Lectotype (Benson in Amer. Midl. Naturalist 52: 337. 1954): Herb. Clifford: 231, Ranunculus 18 (BM-000628911) . Generitype of Ranunculus Linnaeus. Current name: Ranunculus acris L. ( Ranunculaceae ). Note: Ranunculus auricomus L. was treated as the generitype by Britton & Brown ( Ill. Fl. N. U. S. , ed. 2, 2: 104. 1913; see McNeill & al. (in Taxon 36: 381. 1987). However, under Art. 10.5, Ex. 7 (a voted example) of the Vienna Code, this is a type choice made under the American Code and is to be replaced under Art. 10.5b by Green's choice ( Prop. Brit. Bot. : 163. 1929) of R. acris L.