Gardenia jasminoides J. Ellis, 1761

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part V), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 911-926 : 914

Varneria augusta Linnaeus , Amoenitates Academicae 4: 136. 1759, nom. inval.

Type not relevant.

Current name: Gardenia jasminoides J. Ellis ( Rubiaceae ).

Note: This name is invalid because the genus Varneria was given no separate generic description. Under Art. 42.1, the names of a genus and a species may not be simultaneously validated by a reference to an earlier description or diagnosis, as occurred here. However, some authors (e.g. Merrill, Interpret. Rumph. Herb. Amb.: 486. 1917) have treated this as the basionym of G. augusta (L.) Merrill , wrongly interpreted as the correct name for the species otherwise known as G. jasminoides J. Ellis (1761) .