Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part R) 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 785 805 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Rubia tinctorum Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 109. 1753 . "Habitat Monspelii & ad Danubium." RCN: 890. Lectotype (Natali in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 83. 1993): Herb. Clifford: 35, Rubia 1 β (BM-000557792) . Generitype of Rubia Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot. : 124. 1929). Current name: Rubia tinctorum L. ( Rubiaceae ). Note: Nazimuddin & Qaiser (in Nasir & Ali, Fl. Pakistan 190: 46. 1989) indicated unspecified material in LINN as type. They did not distinguish between sheets 131.1 and 131.2 (LINN) but, as they are not part of the same gathering, Art. 9.15 does not apply.