Hedysarum spinosissimum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 750. 1753.

"Habitat in Hispania." RCN: 5536.

Lectotype (Jafri in Jafri & El-Gadi, Fl. Libya 86: 139. 1980): Herb. Linn. No. 921.62 (LINN) .

Current name: Hedysarum spinosissimum L. subsp. spinosissimum ( Fabaceae: Faboideae).

Note: Although the identity of Herb. Linn. No. 921.62 (LINN) was discussed earlier by Heyn (in Israel J. Bot. 12: 190. 1963), she did not refer to the specimen as the type (or any equivalent), so Jafri’s statement is accepted as the earliest formal choice of type.