Scirpus romanus Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 49. 1753.

"Habitat in Galloprovincia & Romae." RCN: 414.

Lectotype (Pignotti in Webbia 58: 315. 2003): Rathgeb?, Herb. Linn. No. 71.19 (LINN), see p. 225.

Current name: Scirpoides holoschoenus (L.) Soják ( Cyperaceae).

Note: Simpson (in Taxon 53: 181. 2004) independently made the same choice of type as Pignotti, whose typification was published a few months earlier.