Helichrysum cochleariforme

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part G), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 529-556 : 547

Gnaphalium imbricatum Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2: 855. 1753.

“Habitat in Aethiopia.” RCN: 6170.

Lectotype (Hilliard & Burtt in Jarvis & Turland in Taxon 47: 362. 1998): [icon] “ Gnaphalium incanum , angustifolium, calicis squamis ferrugineis reflexis ” in Burman, Rar. Afric. Pl.: 226, t. 80, f. 2. 1739. –Typotype: Herb. Burman (G).

Current name: Helichrysum cochleariforme DC. ( Asteraceae ).

Note: Hilliard & Burtt (in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 82: 243, 260, 262. 1981) indicated a specimen in the Burman herbarium at G, unseen by Linnaeus and not original material for the name, as lectotype. Hilliard & Burtt subsequently designated a Burman plate as lectotype.