Aster amellus Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 873. 1733.

"Habitat in Europae australis asperis collibus." RCN: 6318.

Lectotype (Semple in Sida 22: 1088. 2006): Herb. Linn. No. 997.16 (LINN) .

Generitype of Aster Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 181. 1929).

Current name: Aster amellus L. ( Asteraceae).

Note: Semple (in Jarvis & Turland, Taxon 47: 354. 1998) designated 997.18 (LINN) as lectotype but subsequent study has shown this material to conflict with the diagnosis (and be identifiable as a member of the Galatella Cass. / Crintaria Cass, complex, rather than Aster). Semple (2006) therefore rejected his earlier typification in favour of 997.16 (LINN).