Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M) 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 651 689 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Myrtus caryophyllata Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 472. 1753 . "Habitat in Zeylona." RCN: 3614. Lectotype (Kostermans in Quart. J. Taiwan Mus. 34: 133. 1981): Herb. Hermann 2: 3; 4: 34, No. 183 (BM). Current name: Syzygium caryophyllatum (L.) Alston ( Myrtaceae ). Note: As the material in Herb. Hermann appears to be part of a single gathering (Art. 9.15), Kostermans is accepted as having typified the name.