Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A) 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 252 342 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Asclepias fruticosa Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 216. 1753 . "Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 1785. Lectotype (Woodson in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 41: 151. 1954): Herb. Linn. No. 310.33 ( LINN ) . - Epitype (Goyder & Nicholas in Kew Bull. 56: 782. 2001): South Africa. Northern Cape, Bloeddrif, 12 Sep 1968, Hardy 2562 (K; iso- PRE, WIND). Current name: Gomphocarpus fruticosus (L.) W.T. Aiton ( Asclepiadaceae ). Note: Woodson cited the sheet number of the type as "310.23" (which relates to A. incarnata L. ) but this appears to have been a simple error for "310.33" .