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 Polygonum aviculare Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 362. 1753 , typ. cons . "Habitat in Europae cultis ruderatis." RCN: 2865. Lectotype (Styles in Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 91: 294. 1959): Herb. Linn. No. 510.23 ( LINN ) . Generitype of Polygonum , Linnaeus , nom. cons . Current name: Polygonum aviculare L. ( Polygonaceae ). Note: Confusion over the application of P. aviculare led McNeill (in Taxon 30: 638. 1981) to propose the rejection of the name under the then Art. 69. However, the Committee for Spermatophyta (in Taxon 33: 299. 1984) did not recommend rejection.