Onosma echioides (Linnaeus) Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 1: 196. 1762.

"Habitat in Austriae, Pannoniae, Helvetiae, Galliae, Italiae rupibus." RCN: 1105.

Basionym: Cerinthe echioides L. (1753) .

Lectotype (Lacaita, Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital, n.s., 31: 24. 1924): [icon] " Anchusa echioides lutea, cerinthoides mont. " in Colonna, Ekphr.: 182, 183. 1606.

Generitype of Onosma Linnaeus (vide Johnston in J. Arnold Arbor. 35: 73. 1954).

Current name: Onosma echioides (L.) L. ( Boraginaceae).

Note: See Stearn (in Ann. Mus. Goulandris 9: 235-238. 1994) on the gender of Onosma .