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 Melochia tomentosa Linnaeus , Systema Naturae , ed. 10, 2 : 1140. 1759 . ["Habitat in America meridionali."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 943 (1763). RCN: 4925. Type not designated. Original material: Herb. Linn. No. 855.3 ( LINN ) ; Herb. Linn. No. 855.2 ( LINN ) ; [icon] in Sloane, Voy. Jamaica 1: 220, t. 139, f. 1. 1707. Current name: Melochia tomentosa L. ( Sterculiaceae ). Note: Goldberg (in Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 34: 330. 1967) noted the two sheets at LINN but referred to neither as the type. Fryxell (in McVaugh, Fl. Novo-Galiciana 3: 136. 2001) indicated 855.2 (LINN) as lectotype , but this choice was published after 1 Jan 2001 and so the omission of the phrase "designated here" or an equivalent (Art. 7.11) means that it is not effective.