Astragalus penduliflorus Lam.

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 718-782 : 733

Phaca alpina Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2: 755. 1753.

"Habitat in Lapponia, Sibiria." RCN: 5570.

Lectotype (Greuter in Candollea 23: 265. 1968): Herb. Linn. No. 925.3 ( LINN) .

Generitype of Phaca Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 176. 1929).

Current name: Astragalus penduliflorus Lam. ( Fabaceae : Faboideae ).

Note: Phaca baetica was treated as the generitype by Britton & Brown ( Ill. Fl. N. U. S., ed. 2, 2: 385. 1913; see McNeill & al. in Taxon 36: 380. 1987). However, under Art. 10.5, Ex. 7 (a voted example) of the Vienna Code, this is a type choice made under the American Code and is to be replaced under Art. 10.5b by Green’s choice ( Prop. Brit. Bot.: 176. 1929) of P. alpina L.

There is some doubt whether, taxonomically, the Siberian and European plants included by Linnaeus are conspecific. If treated as conspecific, the correct name is A. penduliflorus Lam. , “alpina” being pre-occupied in Astragalus by A. alpinus L. (1753) .