<Unknown Taxon>

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part S), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 806-877 : 868

Spermacoce hirta Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 1: 148. 1762.

“Habitat in Jamaica.” RCN: 839.

Lectotype (Verdcourt in Kew Bull. 30: 318. 1975): Herb. Linn. No. 125.8 (LINN).

Current name: Mitracarpus hirtus (L.) DC. (Rubiaceae).

Note: See discussion by Verdcourt, and Nicolson (in Taxon 26: 572. 1977) and Howard (Fl. Lesser Antilles 6: 434. 1989).