Digitalis purpurea 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 : 480

Digitalis purpurea Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2: 621. 1753.

"Habitat in Europa australiore." RCN: 4499.

Lectotype ( D’Arcy in Woodson & Schery in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 66: 216. 1979): Herb. Linn. No. 775.1 ( LINN) .

Generitype of Digitalis Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 168. 1929).

Current name: Digitalis purpurea L. ( Scrophulariaceae ).

Note: Hinz (in Candollea 42: 168. 1987) also accepted 775.1 (LINN) as type, illustrating it as her f. 1.