Sanguisorba minor Scop.

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 718-782 : 768

Poterium sanguisorba Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2: 994. 1753.

"Habitat in Creta, Libano." RCN: 7207.

Lectotype (Purohit & Panigrahi, Fam. Rosaceae India 1: 255. 1991): Löfling 673, Herb. Linn. No. 1127.1 ( LINN) . - Epitype (Nordborg in Opera Bot. 16: 98. 1967): Spain. Jaén, Sierra de Cazorla, 1,300m, 20 May 1964, Nordborg 8040 (LD).

Generitype of Poterium Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 189. 1929).

Current name: Sanguisorba minor Scop. ( Rosaceae ).

Note: Nordborg (in Opera Bot. 16: 98. 1967) chose a neotype for this name because 1127.1 (LINN), although original material, was unidentifiable as to subspecies. A neotype cannot be maintained when original material exists (Art. 9.17) so, despite the deficiencies of the material, Purohit & Panigrahi’s lectotype choice has priority. However, under Art. 9.8, Nordborg’s neotype choice can be accepted as an epitype.