Astragalus sesamoides Linnaeus, Amoenitates Academicae 4: 489. 1759, orth. var.

["Habitat in G. Narbonensi, Italia."] Sp. Pl. 2: 759 (1753).

Lectotype (designated here by Podlech): [icon] " Astragalus annuus foliis & siliquis hirsutis, plurimis in foliorum alis sessilibus " in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 79, f. 3. 1691; Almag. Bot.: 60. 1696. - Voucher: Herb. Sloane 99: 137 (BM-SL) .

Current name: Astragalus sesameus L. ( Fabaceae: Faboideae).

Note: Astragalus sesamoides L. (Amoen. Acad. 4: 489. 1759) was regarded by Stearn (in Geck & Pressler, Festschr. Claus Nissen: 632. 1974) as an orthographic variant of A. sesameus L. (Sp. Pl. 2: 759. 1753). This seems perfectly plausible, because the phrase name used by Magnol (Bot. Monsp.: 194. 1676), "Ornithopodio affinis hirsuta stella legiminosa", cited (only slightly altered) from Bauhin (Pinax: 350. 1623), was treated as a synonym of A. sesameus by Linnaeus in 1753. Moreover, A. sesamoides never appears again in later works, whereas A. sesameus does (see Turland & Jarvis in Taxon 46: 464. 1997).