Cucubalus aegyptiacus Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 415. 1753.

"Habitat in Aegypto." RCN: 3228.

Neotype (Hosny in Cafferty & Jarvis in Taxon 53: 1051. 2004): Israel. Jerusalem, 17 Mar 1911, J.E. Dinsmore 618 (CAI).

Current name: Silene aegyptiaca (L.) L. f. ( Caryophyllaceae).

Note: Melzheimer (in Rechinger, Fl. Iranica 163: 499. 1988) stated “Typus… Herb. Linn.", but this does not distinguish between sheets 582.8 and 582.10, both of which bear the epithet “aegyptiacus” . However, on sheet 582.8 this epithet has been deleted in favour of "5 stellatus" (written by Linnaeus), and the material is a good match for the protologue of C. stellatus L., of which name it is the lectotype. Sheet 582.10 bears material received from Latour, lacks a Species Plantarum number (i.e. “7”), and was received after 1753. Neither sheet is original material for C. aegyptiacus . Linnaeus mentioned Hasselquist in the protologue but, in the absence of any extant material, Hosny designated a neotype.