Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part S) 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 806 877 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Salix alba Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 1021. 1753 , typ. cons. "Habitat ad pagos & urbes Europae." RCN: 7387. Conserved type (Groendijk-Wilders & al. in Taxon 37: 166, f. 1. 1988): Herb. Burser XXIV: 104 ( UPS ) . Generitype of Salix Linnaeus , nom. cons. Current name: Salix alba L. subsp. alba ( Salicaceae ). Note: Salix alba , with the type designated by Groendijk-Wilders & al., was proposed as conserved type of the genus by Jarvis (in Taxon 41: 573. 1992). This was eventually approved by the General Committee (see review of the history of this proposal by Barrie, l.c. 55: 795-796. 2006).