Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A) 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 252 342 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Achyranthes repens Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 205. 1753 . "Habitat in Turcomannia." RCN: 1681. Replaced synonym of: Illecebrum achyranthum L. (1762) , nom. illeg. Type not designated. Original material: [icon] in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 1: 8, t. 7, f. 7. 1732 - Typotype : Herb. Sherard ( OXF ) . Current name: Alternanthera pungens (L.) Kunth ( Amaranthaceae ). Note: Melville (in Kew Bull. 13: 173. 1958) designated a cultivated specimen in the Sherard herbarium (OXF) as the holotype but this would not have been seen by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name.