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 Pteronia camphorata (Linnaeus) Linnaeus , Species Plantarum , ed. 2, 2 : 1176. 1763 . "Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 6076. Basionym: Pterophora camphorata L. (1760) . Lectotype (Lowrey in Jarvis & Turland in Taxon 47: 365. 1998): Herb. Linn. No. 980.2 ( LINN ) . Generitype of Pteronia Linnaeus , nom. cons. Current name: Pteronia camphorata (L.) L. ( Asteraceae ). Note: Pteronia Linnaeus (1763) , nom. cons , against Pterophorus Boehm. (Oct 1760) and Pterophora Linnaeus (Dec 1760) . Hutchinson & Phillips (in Ann. S. African Mus. 9: 278. 1917) said that the genus is "founded by Linnaeus...on a figure published by Plukenet" which is "an excellent representation of P. camphorata L. the type of the genus". However, the statement is not accepted here as effecting typification of the name.