Ophrys arachnites (L.) Mill., 1754

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part O), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 696-717 : 703

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Ophrys arachnites (Linnaeus) Linnaeus View in CoL , Flora Anglica: 23. 1754, nom. inval.

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Current name: Ophrys arachnites (L.) Mill. View in CoL ( Orchidaceae ).

Note: Britten (in J. Bot. 47, Suppl. 1909; 50: 312-314. 1912) argued that this apparent novelty results from a typographic error for the previously published O. insectifera var. arachnites L. (1753) . Stearn (Introd. Ray’s Syn. Meth. Stirp. Brit. (Ray Soc. ed.): 42-68. 1973) evidently agreed as he did not list the name as new. However, Rothmaler (in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 49: 280. 1941) did accept O. arachnites as a new combination. He has been followed by Greuter (in Candollea 44: 566. 1989) who, however, treated the name as a nomen dubium et confusum.