Silene gigantea Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 418; Species Plantarum 2: 1231. 1753, nom. inval.

"Habitat in Lusitania." RCN: 3250.

Type not relevant.

Current name: Silene gigantea (L.) L. ( Caryophyllaceae).

Note: Linnaeus transferred this taxon to Cucubalus, as C. giganteus L., in the Errata of Sp. Pl. 2: 1231 (1753); see Greuter (in Boissiera 13: 137. 1967).