Corispermum squarrosum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 4. 1753.

"Habitat in Wolgam Tartariae, inque desertis Coffacorum." RCN: 31.

Type not designated.

Original material: Gmelin, Herb. Linn. No. 12.3 (LINN); [icon] in Buxbaum, Pl. Minus Cognit. Cent. 3: 30, t. 56. 1729.

Current name: Agriophyllum squarrosum (L.) Moq. ( Chenopodiaceae).

Note: Although Aellen (in Feddes Repert. 69: 144. 1964) says that the type of C. squarrosum is identifiable as Agriophyllum arenarium M. Bieb., he failed to indicate what collection or illustration he considered to be the type.