Nyssa aquatica Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1058. 1753.

"Habitat in Americae septentrionalis aquosis." RCN: 7703.

Lectotype (Reveal in Phytologia 71: 470. 1991): Clayton s.n. " Nyssa foeminea pedunculis unifions" (BM-000042689).

Generitype of Nyssa Linnaeus.

Current name: Nyssa aquatica L. ( Nyssaceae).

Note: Detailed reviews of this name and the complexities of its application were published by Eyde (in Rhodora 61: 209-218. 1959; Taxon 13: 129-131. 1964), but neither he nor Howard & Staples (in J. Arnold Arbor. 64: 533. 1983) explicitly chose a type.