Cressa cretica L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part H), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 557-585 : 569

Herniaria lenticulata Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1: 218. 1753 .

"Habitat in Hispaniae montibus Escurial, Monspelii." RCN: 1797.

Neotype (designated here by Staples): Herb. Linn. No. 312.5 ( LINN) .

Current name: Cressa cretica L. ( Convolvulaceae ).

Note: Burtt & Lewis (in Kew Bull. 7: 337-338. 1952) argued that although 312.5 (LINN) is identifiable as Cressa cretica L. ( Convolvulaceae ), it is not original material for H. lenticulata , which should be based instead on material in Herb. Bauhin ( BAS). This, too, would not be original material but Burtt & Lewis declined to make any formal type choice. Chaudhri (Rev. Paronychiinae: 398. 1968), however, excluded this name from Herniaria and treated it as a synonym of Cressa cretica . In the absence of original material, this synonymy is formalised by the designation of 312.5 (LINN) as a neotype.