Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 252 342 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Astragalus sesamoides Linnaeus , Amoenitates Academicae 4 : 489. 1759 , orth. var. ["Habitat in G. Narbonensi, Italia."] Sp. Pl. 2: 759 (1753). Lectotype (designated here by Podlech): [icon] " Astragalus annuus foliis & siliquis hirsutis, plurimis in foliorum alis sessilibus " in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 79, f. 3. 1691; Almag. Bot.: 60. 1696. - Voucher: Herb. Sloane 99: 137 ( BM-SL ) . Current name: Astragalus sesameus L. ( Fabaceae : Faboideae ). Note: Astragalus sesamoides L. ( Amoen. Acad. 4: 489. 1759) was regarded by Stearn (in Geck & Pressler, Festschr. Claus Nissen : 632. 1974) as an orthographic variant of A. sesameus L. ( Sp. Pl. 2: 759. 1753). This seems perfectly plausible, because the phrase name used by Magnol ( Bot. Monsp. : 194. 1676), "Ornithopodio affinis hirsuta stella legiminosa", cited (only slightly altered) from Bauhin ( Pinax : 350. 1623), was treated as a synonym of A. sesameus by Linnaeus in 1753. Moreover, A. sesamoides never appears again in later works, whereas A. sesameus does (see Turland & Jarvis in Taxon 46: 464. 1997).