Heracleum sphondylium Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 249. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae nemorosis." RCN: 2003.

Lectotype (Reduron & Jarvis in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 53. 1993): Herb. Clifford: 103, Heracleum 1, sheet 3 (BM-000558354) .

Generitype of Heracleum Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 140. 1929).

Current name: Heracleum sphondylium L. ( Apiaceae).