Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part H) 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 557 585 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Heliotropium europaeum Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 130. 1753 . "Habitat in Europa australi." RCN: 1057. Lectotype ( Foerther in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 53. 1993): Herb. Clifford: 45, Heliotropium 1 (BM-000557900) . Generitype of Heliotropium Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot. : 127. 1929). Current name: Heliotropium europaeum L. ( Boraginaceae ). Note: Kazmi (in J. Arnold Arbor. 51: 175. 1970) indicated 179.8 (LINN) as type, but this is an Alstroemer collection not received by Linnaeus until long after 1753. It is not original material for the name.