Tylecodon papillaris (L.) G.D. Rowley, 1979

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 370-473 : 370

Cacalia papillaris Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2: 834. 1753.

"Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 6029.

Lectotype (Rowley in Natl. Cact. Succ. J. 34: 34. 1979): [icon] " Cacalianthemum (forte) caudice papillari " in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 1: 63, t. 55, f. 63 [larger fig.]. 1732 (see p. 124).

Current name: Tylecodon papillaris (L.) G.D. Rowley ( Asteraceae ).

Note: Rowley typified the name and took up Tylecodon papillaris (L.) G.D. Rowley as the correct name for T. cacalioides (L. f.) Toelken . However, Tölken (in Leistner, Fl. Southern Africa 14: 35. 1985) argued that the type illustration (which is figured by Rowley, and also by van Jaarsveld & Koutnik, Cotyledon and Tylecodon : 12, f. 14. 2004), being sterile, does not allow a reliable identification to be made, as it could represent either T. cacalioides or T wallichii (Harv.) Tölken. Rowley regarded these names as forms of a single species. Tölken concluded that the Linnaean name should be rejected to avoid further confusion, but no formal proposal appears to have been made.