Valeriana pyrenaica L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part V), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 911-926 : 913

Valeriana pyrenaica Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1: 33. 1753.

“Habitat in Pyrenaeis?” RCN: 262.

Lectotype (Barrie in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 98. 1993): Herb. Linn. No. 48.12 (LINN).

Current name: Valeriana pyrenaica L. ( Valerianaceae ).

Note: Valeriana pyrenaica was treated as the generitype by Britton & Brown ( Ill. Fl. N. U. S., ed. 2, 3: 284. 1913; see McNeill & al. in Taxon 36: 387. 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.: 117. 1929) of V officinalis L.