Trillium cernuum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 339. 1753.

"Habitat in Carolina." RCN: 2617.

Lectotype (Gleason in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 33: 390. 1906): Kalm, Herb. Linn. No. 469.1 (LINN; iso- UPS) .

Generitype of Trillium Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 148. 1929).

Current name: Trillium cernuum L. ( Liliaceae / Trilliaceae).

Note: Although Rendle (in J. Bot. 39: 332. 1901) discussed the original elements for this name, including the Kalm specimen in LINN, he did not refer to any of them as the type. See Reveal (in Phytologia 72: 1. 1992) for a more recent review.