Anagallis arvensis Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 148. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae arvis." RCN: 1180.

Lectotype (Dyer in Dyer & ah., Fl. Southern Africa 26: 14. 1963): Herb. Linn. No. 208.1 (LINN) .

Generitype of Anagallis Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 129. 1929).

Current name: Anagallis arvensis L. ( Primulaceae).

Note: Although Taylor (in Hubbard & Milne-Redhead, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Primulaceae: 10. 1958) indicated 208.1 (LINN) as a syntype (which is not, by definition, the sole type of a name, unlike a holotype, lectotype or neotype), this statement is not accepted as correctable to lectotype under Art. 9.8.