Gazania rigens (L.) Gaertn.

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part G), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 529-556 : 529

Gorteria rigens (Linnaeus) Linnaeus , Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 2: 1284. 1763.

"Habitat ad Cap. b. spei." RCN: 6572.

Basionym: Othonna rigens L. (1760) .

Lectotype (Roessler in Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 3: 371. 1959): Schreber, Herb. Linn. No. 1027.3 ( LINN) .

Current name: Gazania rigens (L.) Gaertn. ( Asteraceae ).

Note: Wijnands (Bot. Commelins: 84. 1981) argued that the typification by Roessler should be rejected because the thesis in which Othonna rigens was published was based largely on specimens lent to Linnaeus by Burman. While this is generally true, 1027.3 (LINN, above) is annotated as Othonna rigens by Linnaeus, and appears to be original material for both that name and Gorteria rigens (L.) L. (1763) . Roessler’s typification is accepted here.