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 Piper nigrum Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 28. 1753 . "Habitat in India." RCN: 230. Lectotype (Huber in Dassanayake & Fosberg, Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 6: 283. 1987): Herb. Hermann 3: 21; 4: 11, No. 26 (BM). Generitype of Piper Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock in Amer. J. Bot . 10: 513. 1923). Current name: Piper nigrum L. ( Piperaceae ). Note: Huber's type choice is of material from a single gathering, but distributed between two of Hermann's bound volumes, so the typification is valid under Art. 9.15.