Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M) 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 651 689 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Mimosa polystachya Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 520. 1753 . "Habitat in America calidiore." RCN: 7675. Lectotype (Howard, Fl. Lesser Antilles 4: 356. 1988): [icon] " Mimosa inermis , foliis bipinnatis, partialibus quatuor jugis" in Plumier in Burman, Pl. Amer.: 7, t. 12. 1755. Current name: Entada polystachya (L.) DC. ( Fabaceae : Mimosoideae ).