Metalasia muricata (L.) D. Don

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part G), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 529-556 : 529

Gnaphalium muricatum Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2: 852. 1753.

"Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 6153.

Lectotype (Hilliard & Burtt in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 82: 244. 1981): Herb. Clifford: 402, Gnaphalium 17 [ “18”] (BM-000647013) .

Current name: Metalasia muricata (L.) D. Don ( Asteraceae ).

Note: Hilliard & Burtt (in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 82: 244. 1981) indicated Gnaphalium sheet no. 18 in Herb. Clifford ( BM) as lectotype, presumably in error for no. 17, filed at the end of the genus. Karis (in Opera Bot. 99: 121. 1989) noted Hilliard & Burtt’s lectotypification, correcting the sheet number from “18” to “17”, and pointing out that sheet no. 18 bears material of Conyza candida L. (= Inula candida (L.) Cass. ) and is totally inconsistent with the description of Metalasia muricata .