Saponaria officinalis Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 408. 1753.

"Habitat in Europa media." RCN: 3195.

Lectotype (Schultz in Bot. Zhurn. 69: 1479. 1984): Herb. Linn. No. 580.1 (LINN) .

Generitype of Saponaria Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 155. 1929).

Current name: Saponaria officinalis L. ( Caryophyllaceae).

Note: Ghazanfar & Nasir (in Nasir & Ali, Fl. Pakistan 175: 102. 1986) designated Clifford material (BM) as type, but Schultz’s choice predates this.