Pilea grandifolia (L.) Blume

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part U), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 906-910 : 909

Urtica grandifolia Linnaeus , Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 1266. 1759.

["Habitat in Jamaica."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 1396 (1763). RCN: 7131.

Lectotype (Monro in Monro & Spencer in Taxon 54: 797. 2005): Browne?, Herb. Linn. No. 1111.21 ( LINN) , see p. 168.

Current name: Pilea grandifolia (L.) Blume ( Urticaceae ).

Note: Although Fawcett & Rendle ( Fl. Jamaica 3: 72. 1914) indicated material in BM as type, they did not specify what this was (though probably material in Herb. Sloane, unseen by Linnaeus and not original material for the name).