Nidorella foetida (L.)

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part E), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 490-515 : 502

Erigeron foetidus (Linnaeus) Linnaeus , Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 2: 1213. 1763.

"Habitat in Africa." RCN: 6258.

Basionym: Inula foetida L. (1759) .

Lectotype (Wild in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 43: 217. 1969): [icon] " Senecio, Africanus folio retuso" in Miller, Fig. Pl. Gard. Dict. 2: 155, t. 233. 1758.

Current name: Nidorella foetida (L.) DC. ( Asteraceae ).

Note: Specific epithet spelled “foetidum” in the protologue.

Linnaeus caused considerable confusion in his Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2 (1763) treatment by simultaneously recognising both Inula foetida (p. 1241), originally published in 1759 linked with an African element but in 1763 said to be from Malta, and Erigeron foetidus (p. 1213) from Africa. Interpretation has been complicated because Linnaeus cited the Miller illustration (now the lectotype of I. foetida ) in the synonymy of both names. However, most authors (e.g. Brullo in Webbia 34: 290. 1979) have interpreted I. foetida (1759) as homotypic with E. foetidus (L.) L. (1763) , and the Maltese taxon has been described as Chiliadenus bocconei Brullo.