Echium italicum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 139. 1753.

"Habitat in Anglia, Italia." RCN: 1125.

Lectotype (Gibbs in Lagascalia 1: 48. 1971): Herb. Linn. No. 191.17 (LINN) .

Current name: Echium italicum L. ( Boraginaceae).

Note: Echium italicum was treated as the generitype of Echium by Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U. S., ed. 2, 3: 93. 1913 (see McNeill & al. in Taxon 36: 370. 1987). However, under Art. 10.5, Ex. 7 (a voted example) of the Vienna Code, this is a type choice made under the American Code and is to be replaced under Art. 10.5b by Hitchcock’s choice (Prop. Brit. Bot.: 128. 1929) of E. vulgare L.