Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 651 689 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Marrubium hispanicum Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 583. 1753 . "Habitat in Hispania." RCN: 4260. Lectotype (Heywood in Agron. Lusit. 20: 202. 1959): Herb. Clifford: 312, Marrubium 7 (BM-000646091) . Current name: Ballota hispanica (L.) Benth. ( Lamiaceae ). Note: Lacaita (in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 47: 166. 1925) concluded that the name should be abandoned as excessively confused. Heywood (1959) argued that Lacaita was wrong to reject the Clifford material, and that it must be the lectotype , also discussing the possibility that rejection of the name might be necessary Patzak (in Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 63: 58, 67-69. 1959) followed Heywood as to typification, but rejected the name as ambiguous, taking up B. hirsuta Benth. for the Spanish plant, and B. rupestris (Biv.) Vis. for the Eastern Mediterranean taxon. However, no formal proposal for the rejection of the name has been made.