Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P) 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 718 782 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Polygonum fagopyrum Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 364. 1753 . "Habitat in Asia." RCN: 2875. Lectotype (Graham in Turrill & Milne-Redhead, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Polygonaceae : 26. 1958): Herb. Linn. No. 510.37 ( LINN ) . Generitype of Helxine Linnaeus (vide Reveal in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg . 127: 53. 1993). Current name: Fagopyrum esculentum Moench ( Polygonaceae ). Note: Polygonum fagopyrum L. is the basionym of Fagopyrum esculentum Moench , the conserved type of Fagopyrum Mill.