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Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 651-689 : 678

Mimusops elengi Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 349. 1753.

[“Habitat in India.”] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 1: 497. 1762. RCN: 2675.

Lectotype (Pennington in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 67. 1993): Herb. Hermann 3: 23, No. 138 (BM-000621879).

Generitype of Mimusops Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 149. 1929).

Current name: Mimusops elengi L. (Sapotaceae).

Note: Friedmann (in Bosser & al., Fl. Mascareignes 116: 23. 1981) indicated material in LINN (presumably sheet 492.1) as the holotype, but this material was a later addition to the herbarium and not original material for the name.