Dracocephalum grandiflorum L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part D), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 474-489 : 487

Dracocephalum grandiflorum Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2: 595. 1753.

"Habitat in Sibiria." RCN: 4320.

Lectotype (Budantzev in Jarvis & al. in Taxon 50: 511. 2001): Gmelin s.n., Herb. Linn. No. 746.8 ( LINN) .

Current name: Dracocephalum grandiflorum L. ( Lamiaceae ).

Note: Tscherneva (in Grubov & al., Pl. C. Asia 5: 48-49. 2002) stated "Type in London (Linn.)" and cited Keenan (in Baileya 5: 33. 1957) as saying there are three collections in LINN. Two of these were reported to be “typical” (the third is supposed to be D. stellerianum Hiltebr. ), which Tscherneva stated "were evidently collected from Barguzin and should be treated as type of D. grandiflorum L. ". Keenan regarded all three as conspecific, but 746.8 (from Gmelin) as the atypical one of the three (with smaller flowers and entire bracts) from which "Linnaeus obviously drew his description". However, neither author made a statement clearly designating any one of these collections as the type.