Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C) 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 370 473 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Cactus cochenillifer Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 468. 1753 . "Habitat in Jamaica & America calidiore." RCN: 3587. Lectotype (Howard, Fl. Lesser Antilles 5: 411. 1989): [icon] " Tuna mitior flore sanguineo, cochenillifera " in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 2: 399, t. 297, f. 383. 1732. Current name: Nopalea cochenillifera (L.) Salm-Dyck ( Cactaceae ). Note: Benson ( Cacti U.S. Canada : 932. 1982) designated a neotype but this is contrary to Art. 9.11 as original material is in existence. See Crook & Mottram (in Bradleya 14: 111. 1996) who noted the original elements, and reproduced the type in colour (their f. 18, p. 127).