Lupinus albus Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 721. 1753.

"Habitat - - - –” RCN: 5307.

Lectotype (Westphal, Pulses Ethiopia, Taxon. Agric. Signif.: 118. 1974): Herb. Clifford: 359, Lupinus 1, sheet A (BM-000646590) .

Generitype of Lupinus Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 174. 1929).

Current name: Lupinus albus L. subsp. albus ( Fabaceae: Faboideae).

Note: Westphal’s type choice of Clifford material (BM) was published in February 1974, and therefore has priority over the competing choice of 898.2 (LINN) made by Gladstones (Tech. Bull. Dept. Agric. Western Australia 26: 4) in December 1974.