Rhinanthus major Linnaeus, Amoenitates Academicae 3: 53. 1756.

RCN: 4374.

Type not designated.

Original material: none traced.

Current name: Rhinanthus alectorolophus (Scop.) Pollich ( Scrophulariaceae).

Note: This has been treated as a nomen ambiguum by many authors but no formal rejection proposal has been made.