Centaurea pumilio L., 1755

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 370-473 : 401

Centaurea pumilio Linnaeus , Centuria I Plantarum: 30. 1755, nom. & orth. cons.

"Habitat in Aegypto. D. Hasselquist." RCN: 6640.

Conserved type (Turland in Taxon 44: 643. 1995): Egypt. Alexandria, Sidi-Gaber, 8 Apr 1908, Bornmüller 10781 (B).

Current name: Centaurea pumilio L. ( Asteraceae ).

Note: Turland (in Taxon 44: 643. 1995) proposed a conserved type (and spelling for the epithet) for C. pumilio (variously spelled “pumilis”, “pumilio” and “pumila” by Linnaeus), subsequently approved by the Committee for Spermatophyta (in Taxon 47: 867. 1998) and the General Committee (in Taxon 48: 376. 1999).