Rubia cordifolia Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 12, 3: 229. 1768. "Habitat in Maiorca. Gerard." RCN: 894. Type not designated. Original material: Herb. Linn. No. 131.7 (LINN). Current name: Rubia cordifolia L. (Rubiaceae). Note: There have been difficulties in interpreting this name, partly because Linnaeus originally described it as coming from Majorca, and later (in Mant. Pl. Alt.: 197. 1771) modified this to "Sibiria, China") - see Hara & Kurosawa (in Sci. Rep. Tôhoku Univ., Ser. 4, Biol. 29: 258. 1963) and Verdcourt (in Kew Bull. 30: 322. 1975). Although Ehrendorfer & Schönbeck-Temesy (in Rechinger, Fl. Iranica 176: 52. 2005) indicated 131.7 (LINN) as type, they did not state "designated here" or an equivalent as required by Art. 7.11.

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part R), pp. 785-805 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 800, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971