Lycopodium phlegmaria Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1101. 1753. "Habitat in Malabaria, Zeylona." RCN: 7962. Type not designated. Original material: Herb. Hermann 4: 5, No. 386 (BM); [icon] in Breyn, Exot. Pl. Cent.: 180, t. 92. 1678; [icon] in Dillenius, Hist. Musc.: 450, t. 61, f. 5. 1741; [icon] in Rheede, Hort. Malab. 12: 27, t. 14. 1693. Current name: Huperzia phlegmaria (L.) Rothm. (Lycopodiaceae). Note: Roux (Consp. S. African Pteridophyta: 19. 2001) stated that Dillenius’ t. 61, f. 5A, B, C (1741) "is eligible as lectotype ", following Øllgaard (in Biol. Skr. 34: 61. 1989) but this is not a formal typification. Verdcourt (in Beentje & Ghazanfar, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Lycopodiaceae: 9. 2005) indicated the same illustration as the lectotype but this was published after 1 Jan 2001 and so the omission of the phrase "designated here" or an equivalent (Art. 7.11) means that the choice is not effective.

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L), pp. 610-650 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 647, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971