Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part H) 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 557 585 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Hedysarum violaceum Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 749. 1753 . "Habitat in Virginia." RCN: 5521. Lectotype (Clewell in Rhodora 68: 390, 392. 1966): Kalm , Herb. Linn. No. 921.41 ( LINN ; iso- UPS , BM ) . Current name: Lespedeza violacea (L.) Pers. ( Fabaceae : Faboideae ). Note: See extensive discussion by Reveal & Barrie (in Phytologia 71: 456-461. 1991) where they conclude that the lectotype belongs to what has been known as L. intermedia Britton , for which L. violacea becomes the correct name.