Lepidium virginicum L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 610-650 : 620

Lepidium iberis Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2: 645. 1753.

"Habitat in Germania, Gallia, Italia, Sicilia secus vias." RCN: 4694.

Lectotype (Rich in Cafferty & Jarvis in Taxon 51: 534. 2002): Herb. Linn. No. 824.19 ( LINN) .

Current name: Lepidium virginicum L. ( Brassicaceae ).

Note: This name had been treated as a synonym of L. graminifolium L. (1759) by some authors, e.g. Vasconcellos in Tutin & al., Fl. Europaea 1: 333 (1964), despite L. iberis pre-dating the latter. Rich’s typification avoided an unfortunate change of name, L. iberis becoming a synonym of L. virginicum L. (1753) , rather than an earlier name for the taxon known as L. graminifolium .