Nidorella foetida (L.)

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part I), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 586-598 : 591

Inula foetida Linnaeus , Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 1219. 1759.

["Habitat in Africa."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 1213 (1763). RCN: 6397.

Basionym of: Erigeron foetidus (L.) L. (1763) .

Lectotype (Wild in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 43: 217. 1969): [icon] " Senecio, Africanus folio retuso " in Miller, Fig. Pl. Gard. Dict. 2: 155, t. 233. 1758.

Current name: Nidorella foetida (L.) DC. ( Asteraceae ).

Note: Linnaeus caused considerable confusion in his Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2 (1763) treatment by simultaneously recognising both I. foetida (p. 1241), now from Malta, and Erigeron foetidus (p. 1213) from Africa. Interpretation has been complicated because Linnaeus cited the Miller illustration (now the lectotype of I. foetida ) in the synonymy of both names. However, most authors (e.g. Brullo in Webbia 34: 290. 1979) have interpreted I. foetida (1753) as homotypic with E. foetidus (L.) L. (1763) , and the Maltese taxon has been described as Chiliadenus bocconei Brullo.