Chenopodium rubrum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 218. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae cultis, ruderatis." RCN: 1800.

Lectotype (Uotila in Ann. Bot. Fenn. 30: 190. 1993): Herb. Linn. No. 313.5 (LINN) .

Current name: Chenopodium rubrum L. ( Chenopodiaceae).

Note: This was was treated as the generitype of Chenopodium by Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U. S., ed. 2, 2: 9. 1913 (see McNeill & al. in Taxon 36: 365. 1987). However, under Art. 10.5, Ex. 7 (a voted example) of the Vienna Code, this is a type choice made under the American Code and is to be replaced under Art. 10.5b by Hitchcock’s choice (Prop. Brit. Bot.: 137. 1929) of C. album L.