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 leucadendra Linnaeus , Herbarium Amboinense : 9. 1754 , typ. cons. ["Habitat in Amboina."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 1: 676 (1762). RCN: 5733. Basionym of: Melaleuca leucadendra (L.) L. (1767) . Lectotype (Blake in Contr. Queensland Herb. 1: 17. 1968): [icon] "Arbor alba" in Rumphius, Herb. Amboin. 2: 72, t. 16. 1741. Generitype of Melaleuca Linnaeus , nom. cons. Current name: Melaleuca leucadendra (L.) L. ( Myrtaceae ). Note: Merrill ( Interpret. Rumph. Herb. Amb. : 33, 402. 1917) indicated Rumphius' plates and descriptions as the type, but did not distinguish between the two plates (2: t. 16 and t. 17).