Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part V) 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 911 926 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Vinca minor Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 209. 1753 . "Habitat in Germania, Anglia, Gallia." RCN: 1711. Lectotype (Stearn in Taylor & Farnsworth, Vinca Alkaloids : 47. 1973): Herb. Linn. No. 299.1 ( LINN ) . Generitype of Vinca Linnaeus. Current name: Vinca minor L. ( Apocynaceae ). Note: Vinca major L. was treated as the generitype by Britton & Brown (in Ill. Fl. N. U. S. , ed. 2, 3: 20. 1913). However, under Art. 10.5, Ex. 7 (a voted example) of the Vienna Code, this is a type choice made under the American Code and is to be replaced under Art. 10.5b by Hitchcock's choice ( Prop. Brit. Bot. : 136. 1929) of V minor .