Alisma damasonium Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 343. 1753.
"Habitat in Angliae, Galliae aquosis." RCN: 2630.
Lectotype (Siddiqi & Ghafoor in Jafri & El-Gadi, Fl. Libya 85: 2. 1980): Herb. Linn. No. 473.3 (LINN) .
Current name: Damasonium alisma Mill. ( Alismataceae).
Note: See discussion by Rich & Nicholls-Vuille (in Edinburgh J. Bot. 58: 50. 2001).