Euphorbia heterophylla L., 1758

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part E), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 490-515 : 511

Euphorbia heterophylla Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1: 453. 1753.

“Habitat in America calidiore.” RCN: 3504.

Lectotype (Radcliffe-Smith in Bosser & al., Fl. Mascareignes 160: 94. 1982): [icon] “Tithymalus Curassavicus, Salicis & Atriplicis foliis variis, caulibus viridantibus” in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 112, f. 6. 1691; Almag. Bot.: 369. 1696. – Typotype: Herb. Sloane 98: 108 (BM-SL), see p. 149.

Current name: Euphorbia heterophylla L. ( Euphorbiaceae ).

Note: Dressler (in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 48: 332. 1961) noted the absence of any material at LINN and interpreted the name via the Plukenet plate, though without expressly treating it as the type.