Aira flexuosa Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 65. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae petris, rupibus." RCN: 556.

Lectotype (Clayton in Milne-Redhead & Polhill, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Gramineae 1: 94. 1970): Herb. Linn. No. 85.11 (LINN) .

Current name: Deschampsia flexuosa (L.) Trin. ( Poaceae).

Note: Although Kerguélen (in Lejeunia, n.s., 75: 129. 1975) stated "Type: …LINN”, this is not accepted as a formal typification, for the reasons explained by Cafferty & al. (in Taxon 49: 240. 2000).