Setaria verticillata (L.) P. Beauv.

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 718-782 : 722

Panicum verticillatum Linnaeus , Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 1: 82. 1762.

"Habitat in Europa australi & Oriente." RCN: 475.

Lectotype (Sherif & Siddiqi in El-Gadi, Fl. Libya 145: 296. 1988): Herb. Linn. No. 80.7 ( LINN) .

Current name: Setaria verticillata (L.) P. Beauv. ( Poaceae ).

Note: Although Kerguélen (in Lejeunia, n.s., 75: 260. 1975) stated "Type: …LINN”, this is not accepted as a formal typification, for the reasons explained by Cafferty & al. (in Taxon 49: 240. 2000). Cope (in Nasir & Ali, Fl. Pakistan 143: 207. 1982) stated that the type was based on a Scheuchzer account but as this is not accompanied by an illustration, it cannot be a type. Meikle (Fl. Cyprus 2: 1861. 1985) indicated unspecified material in LINN as type but failed to distinguish between sheets 80.7 and 80.13. As they are evidently not part of a single gathering, Art. 9.15 does not apply. Sherif & Siddiqi’s type choice therefore appears to be the earliest.