Androsace septentrionalis Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 142. 1753.

"Habitat in alpibus Lapponiae, Russiae apricis glareosis." RCN: 1146.

Lectotype (Nasir in Nasir & Ali, Fl. Pakistan 157: 75. 1984): Herb. Linn. No. 197.4 (LINN) .

Generitype of Androsace Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 128. 1929).

Current name: Androsace septentrionalis L. ( Primulaceae).

Note: Androsace maxima L. 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.