Buphthalmum spinosum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 903. 1753.

"Habitat in G. Narbonensi, Hispania, Italia, ad margines agrorum." RCN: 6529.

Lectotype (Alavi in Jafri & El-Gadi, Fl. Libya 107: 106. 1983): Herb. Clifford: 414, Buphthalmum 10 (BM-000647181) .

Current name: Pallenis spinosa (L.) Cass. ( Asteraceae).

Note: Wiklund (in Nordic J. Bot. 5: 309. 1985) independently made the same choice of type as Alavi.