Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L) 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 610 650 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Lactuca sativa Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 795. 1753 . "Habitat - - - - -" RCN: 5818. Lectotype (Alavi in Jafri & El-Gadi, Fl. Libya 107: 403. 1983): Herb. Linn. No. 950.2 ( LINN ) . Generitype of Lactuca Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot. : 177. 1929). Current name: Lactuca sativa L. ( Asteraceae ). Note: De Vries & Jarvis (in Taxon 36: 142. 1987) provided a detailed review of the original elements, illustrating many of them, including their chosen type (as f. 1), but they were unaware of Alavi's earlier choice.