Platostoma hispidum (L.) A.J. Paton, 1997

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part G), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 529-556 : 529

Gomphrena hispida Linnaeus , Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 1: 326. 1762.

"Habitat in Malabaria." RCN: 1839.

Lectotype (Mears in Taxon 29: 92. 1980): [icon] " Min-angani " in Rheede, Hort. Malab. 9: 141, t. 72. 1689.

Current name: Platostoma hispidum (L.) A.J. Paton ( Lamiaceae ).

Note: See Paton (in Kew Bull. 52: 273. 1997) for a discussion of this name.