Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part O) 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 696 717 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Ophrys arachnites (Linnaeus) Linnaeus , Flora Anglica : 23. 1754 , nom. inval. Type not relevant. Current name: Ophrys arachnites (L.) Mill. ( Orchidaceae ). Note: Britten (in J. Bot. 47, Suppl. 1909; 50: 312-314. 1912) argued that this apparent novelty results from a typographic error for the previously published O. insectifera var. arachnites L. (1753) . Stearn ( Introd. Ray's Syn. Meth. Stirp. Brit. (Ray Soc. ed.): 42-68. 1973) evidently agreed as he did not list the name as new. However, Rothmaler (in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 49: 280. 1941) did accept O. arachnites as a new combination. He has been followed by Greuter (in Candollea 44: 566. 1989) who, however, treated the name as a nomen dubium et confusum.