page_title: 10th edition of Systema Naturae
section_title: Plants
hierarchical_section_title: 10th edition of Systema Naturae / Plants
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Allionia incarnata just outside Red Rock Canyon, Nevada
context_page_description: The 10th edition of Systema Naturae is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature. In it, Linnaeus introduced binomial nomenclature for animals, something he had already done for plants in his 1753 publication of Species Plantarum.
context_section_description: The second volume, published in 1759, detailed the kingdom Plantae, in which Linnaeus included true plants, as well as fungi, algae and lichens. In addition to repeating the species he had previously listed in his Species Plantarum (1753), and those published in the intervening period, Linnaeus described several hundred new plant species. The species from Species Plantarum were numbered sequentially, while the new species were labelled with letters. Many were sent to Linnaeus by his correspondents overseas, including Johannes Burman and David de Gorter in South Africa, Patrick Browne, Philip Miller and John Ellis in America, Jean-François Séguier, Carlo Allioni and Casimir Christoph Schmidel in the Alps, Gorter and Johann Ernst Hebenstreit in the Orient, and François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix, Gerard and Barnadet Gabriel across Europe.
  New plant species described in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae include:
  Adiantum aethiopicum
  Allionia incarnata
  Alyssum alyssoides
  Amaranthus albus
  Amaranthus cruentus
  Amaranthus gangeticus
  Amyris elemifera
  Anacamptis papilionacea
  Anacamptis sancta
  Apocynum androsaemifolium
  Arbutus andrachne
  Batis maritima
  Brassia caudata
  Bucida buceras
  Calycanthus floridus
  Campanula barbata
  Carex capitata
  Carex distans
  Carpobrotus edulis
  Catharanthus roseus
  Cecropia peltata
  Cedrela odorata
  Chromolaena odorata
  Chrysophyllum oliviforme
  Cissus sicyoides
  Coccoloba pubescens
  Coccoloba uvifera
  Cochlearia anglica
  Coilostylis ciliaris
  Cordyline fruticosa
  Croton glandulosus
  Cunila mariana
  Cunonia capensis
  Desmostachya bipinnata
  Dorstenia drakena
  Echinochloa colona
  Equisetum giganteum
  Excoecaria agallocha
  Genipa americana
  Geranium pusillum
  Hydrastis canadensis
  Grias cauliflora
  Halesia carolina
  Heliotropium arborescens
  Heliotropium arborescens
  Hibiscus cannabinus
  Holcus mollis
  Illicium anisatum
  Inula spiraeifolia
  Ipomoea hederifolia
  Juglans cinerea
  Krameria ixine
  Lactuca canadensis
  Lagerstroemia indica
  Lamium orvala
  Lecythis ollaria
  Magnolia acuminata
  Magnolia grandiflora
  Magnolia tripetala
  Mucuna pruriens
  Oenothera perennis
  Paeonia tenuifolia
  Paspalum distichum
  Passiflora quadrangularis
  Pectis ciliaris
  Pectis linifolia
  Pedalium murex
  Persicaria perfoliata
  Phytolacca icosandra
  Poa palustris
  Polemonium reptans
  Polycarpon tetraphyllum
  Portlandia grandiflora
  Ranunculus parviflorus
  Reseda odorata
  Rheum palmatum
  Rosa pimpinellifolia
  Sagittaria lancifolia
  Salix retusa
  Saxifraga cuneifolia
  Scabiosa prolifera
  Sesuvium portulacastrum
  Silphium perfoliatum
  Talinum fruticosum
  Triplaris americana
  Tripsacum dactyloides
  Turbina corymbosa
  Ursinia anthemoides
  Veronica austriaca
  Zinnia peruviana
caption: Allionia incarnata was one of the two new species in the new genus Allionia introduced in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae.
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