Chenopodium viride Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 219. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae cultis oleraceis." RCN: 1804.

Lectotype (Uotila in Acta Bot. Fenn. 108: 29. 1978): Herb. Linn. No. 313.9 (LINN) .

Current name: Chenopodium album L. ( Chenopodiaceae).

Note: Uotila provided an extensive discussion on the earlier difficulties with this name (often rejected as a nomen ambiguum) and, in typifying it, reduced it to a synonym of C. album .