Sibthorpia europaea Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 631. 1753.

"Habitat in Cornubiae, Devioniae, Lusitaniae udis aggeribus." RCN: 4582.

Lectotype (Hampshire in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 88. 1993): [icon] "Alsine spuria pusilla repens foliis Saxifragae aureae " in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 7, f. 6. 1691; Almag. Bot.: 23. 1696.

Generitype of Sibthorpia Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 169. 1929).

Current name: Sibthorpia europaea L. ( Scrophulariaceae).

Note: Hedberg (in Bot. Not. 108: 168. 1955), followed by a number of later authors, indicated 793.1 (LINN) as type but it is unannotated by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name.