Damasonium palustris Linnaeus, 1759

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part D), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 474-489 : 474

Damasonium palustris Linnaeus , Amoenitates Academicae 4: 492. 1759, nom. inval.

Type not relevant.

Note: As noted by Stearn (in Geck & Pressler, Festschr. Claus Nissen: 631. 1974, this “name” resulted from the misplacement of “Damasonium” within a list of Serapias names in a revised version of the 1756 thesis, Flora Monspeliensis. Stearn suggested that “Damasonium” was intended as a varietal epithet under S. helleborine , but this does not seem to have been adopted in any of Linnaeus’ later works.