Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part I) 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 586 598 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Ixia africana Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 36. 1753 . "Habitat ad Cap. b. Spei." RCN: 289. Lectotype (Goldblatt in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 57. 1993): [icon] " Ixia foliis ad radicem nervosis, gramineis, floribus ac fructu &c." " in Burman, Rar. Afric. Pl: 191, t. 70, f. 2. 1739. Generitype of Ixia Linnaeus (1753) , nom. rej. Current name: Aristea africana (L.) Hoffmanns. ( Iridaceae ). Note: Ixia Linnaeus (1753) , nom. rej. in favour of Ixia Linnaeus (1762) .