Milium effusum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 61. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae nemoribus umbrosis." RCN: 524.

Lectotype (Cope in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 66. 1993): Herb. Linn. No. 83.3 (LINN) .

Generitype of Milium Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 119. 1929).

Current name: Milium effusum L. ( Poaceae).

Note: Although Kerguélen (in Lejeunia, n.s., 75: 212. 1975) stated “type:...LINN”, this is not accepted as a valid typification under Art. 7.11 (see justification by Cafferty & al. in Taxon 49: 240. 2000).