Androsace maxima Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 141. 1753.

"Habitat inter Austriae segetes." RCN: 1144.

Lectotype (Ali in Ali & Jafri, Fl. Libya 1: 8. 1976): Herb. Linn. No. 197.1 (LINN) .

Current name: Androsace maxima L. ( Primulaceae).

Note: This was treated as the generitype of Androsace by Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U. S., ed. 2, 3: 709. 1913 (see McNeill & al. in Taxon 36: 358. 1987). However, under Art. 10.5, Ex. 7 (a voted example) of the Vienna Code, this is a type choice made under the American Code and is to be replaced under Art. 10.5b by Hitchcock’s choice (Prop. Brit. Bot.: 128. 1929) of A. septentrionalis L.