Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C) 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 370 473 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Carduus stellatus Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 823. 1753 . "Habitat - - - -" RCN: 5962. Lectotype (Greuter in Boissiera 22: 150. 1973): Herb. A. van Royen No. 900.233-3 ( L ) . Current name: Ptilostemon stellatus (L.) Greuter ( Asteraceae ). Note: Greuter (in Boissiera 22: 150. 1973) designated as "lectotypus" the description " Carduus spinis ramosis lateralibus, foliis integris subtus tomentosis" van Royen, Fl. Leyd. Prodr. : 133 (1740). He cited a corresponding specimen in Herb, van Royen (L) as "typotypus" , which is treated here (under Art. 9.8) as interpretable as a designation of a lectotype .