Catapodium rigidum (L.) C.E. Hubb.

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 : 753

Poa rigida Linnaeus , Flora Anglica: 10. 1754.

"Habitat [in Anglia.]" RCN: 582.

Lectotype (Stace in Cafferty & al. in Taxon 49: 256. 2000): [icon] " Gramen panicula multiplici " in Bauhin, Prodr. Theatri Bot.: 6. 1620.

Current name: Catapodium rigidum (L.) C.E. Hubb. ( Poaceae ).

Note: Stace & Jarvis (in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 91: 439. 1985) designated 87.37 (LINN) as lectotype, but they treated the name as if first described in Centuria I Plantarum (1755: 5), when in fact it first appeared in Flora Anglica (1754: 10) where it is validated solely by a reference to a work by Ray. Under Art. 7.7, the name must therefore be typified in the context of Ray, and so the material in Linnaeus’ herbarium is ineligible.