Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part T) 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 878 905 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Theobroma cacao Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 782. 1753 . "Habitat in America meridionali, Antillis." RCN: 5722. Lectotype (Dorr in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 93. 1993): [icon] "Cacao" in Sloane, Voy. Jamaica 2: 15, t. 160. 1725. - Typotype : Herb. Sloane 5: 59 ( BM-SL ) . Generitype of Theobroma Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot .: 177. 1929). Current name: Theobroma cacao L. ( Sterculiaceae ). Note: Cuatracasas (in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 35: 385, 496, 508, 513. 1964) designated the flowers and leaves in Herb. Sloane 5: 59 ( BMSL ) as lectotype , with a Tournefort illustration (not cited in Linnaeus' protologue) as a "Fruit-lectotype" . As Linnaeus would not have seen the flowers themselves, they cannot be original material for the name. However, Dorr has formally designated Sloane's illustration as lectotype , with Sloane's material (the basis for the illustration) as typotype .