Bromus secalinus L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part B), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 343-369 : 361

Bromus secalinus Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1: 76. 1753 , typ. cons.

"Habitat in Europae agris secalinis arenosis." RCN: 631.

Conserved type (Smith in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 42: 498. 1985): Herb. Linn. No. 93.1 ( LINN) .

Generitype of Bromus Linnaeus , nom. cons.

Current name: Bromus secalinus L. ( Poaceae ).

Note: Bromus secalinus , with the type designated by Smith, was proposed as conserved type of the genus by Jarvis (in Taxon 41: 559. 1992). This was eventually approved by the General Committee (see review of the history of this proposal by Barrie, l.c. 55: 795-796. 2006).