Mentha longifolia (L.) Huds.

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 651-689 : 666

Mentha longifolia (Linnaeus) Linnaeus , Amoenitates Academicae 4: 485. 1759, nom. inval.

Type not relevant.

Current name: Mentha longifolia (L.) Huds. ( Lamiaceae ).

Note: As noted by Stearn (in Geck & Pressler, Festschr. Claus Nissen: 630. 1974), " Mentha longifolia " is a typographical error for Mentha spicata var. longifolia L. (1753) . The former name did not appear in Syst. Nat., ed. 10 (1759), nor Sp. Pl., ed. 2 (1763) or later Linnaean works. Kerguélen & al. (in Lejeunia, n.s., 120: 207. 1987) also cast doubt on the relationship between these two “names”. Tucker & al. (in Taxon 29: 234, f. 3. 1980) treated M. longifolia as a valid recombination based on M. spicata var. longifolia L. (1753) , and typified by Herb. Burser XIII: 9 ( UPS).