Talk:Moraea sisyrinchium
Latest comment: 6 years ago by Myopic Bookworm in topic History
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History edit
I have removed the reference to "first desribed by Ker Gawler (1805)", since he is merely the authority for the specific name. The plant was listed in Linnaeus (1753) as Iris sisyrinchium, citing an earlier description by Clusius (1601) under the name Sisyrinchium majus.
See The Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project at http://www.nhm.ac.uk/ Myopic Bookworm (talk) 10:40, 7 November 2017 (UTC)