Centaurea cichoracea Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 1231. 1759.

["Habitat in monte argentario Italiae."] Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 2: 1299 (1763). RCN: 6634.

Neotype (Baldini in Jarvis & Turland in Taxon 47: 357. 1998): Italy. Toscana (GR), M.te Argentario, Salenda al Convento dei Padri Passionisti, 26 Jun 1991, R.M. Baldini & Z. Abrahao da Silva, s.n. (FI).

Current name: Klasea flavescens (L.) Holub subsp. cichoracea (L.) Greuter & Wagenitz ( Asteraceae).

Note: Jarvis (in Museol. Sci. 9: 167-168, f. 3, 4. 1983) reproduced an illustration by Tilli that, while omitted from the protologue, was cited in synonymy by Linnaeus in 1763.