Statice minuta Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 12, 2: 223; Mantissa Plantarum: 59. 1767.

"Habitat ad Mare Mediterraneum." RCN: 2197.

Type not designated.

Original material: Scopoli 63, Herb. Linn. No. 395.16? (LINN); [icon] in Boccone, Icon. Descr. Rar. Pl. Siciliae: 64, t. 34. 1674; [icon] in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 200, f. 5. 1692; Almag. Bot.: 221. 1696 - Voucher: Herb. Sloane 96: 149 (BM-SL); [icon] in Boccone, Icon. Descr. Rar. Pl. Siciliae: 26, 25, t. 13, f. 3. 1674.

Current name: Limonium minutum (L.) Chaz. ( Plumbaginaceae).

Note: Erben (in Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 14: 447. 1978; 27: 396. 1988) treated 395.16 (LINN) as the type. However, there seems little to link this Scopoli collection, received by Linnaeus around 1762-63, with the protologue apart from Linnaeus filius’ determination. Erben (1988) excluded Linnaeus’ cited synonyms and evidently uses the name in a sense entirely different from that employed by Pignatti (in Tutin & al., Fl. Europaea 3: 43. 1972), and previously (1978) by Erben himself. In 1988, he described L. pseudominutum Erben for that taxon.