Centaurea argentea Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 912. 1753.

"Habitat in Creta." RCN: 6597.

Lectotype (Turland in Jarvis & Turland in Taxon 47: 357. 1998): Herb. Clifford: 422, Centaurea 14 (BM-000647265) .

Current name: Centaurea argentea L. ( Asteraceae).

Note: Wijnands & Heniger (in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 106: 136, f. 3. 1991) provide a photograph of the collection subsequently designated as the lectotype.