Cerastium repens Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 439. 1753. "Habitat in Gallia, Italia." RCN: 3403. Lectotype (Bechi in Cafferty & Jarvis in Taxon 53: 1051. 2004): [icon] "Myosotis, polygoni folio canescente" in Vaillant, Bot. Paris.: 141, t. 30, f. 5. 1727. Current name: Cerastium arvense L. (Caryophyllaceae). Note: Khalaf & Stace (in Watsonia 23: 482. 2001) said that the name is "of uncertain application. No type specimen has been traced: the specimen in LINN is not a type" and is identifiable as C. arvense. They noted the occasional usage of C. repens in the sense of C. tomentosum L. and C. biebersteinii DC. The only extant original element is the Vaillant illustration, also identifiable as C. arvense, and Bechi’s formal designation of it as lectotype resulted in C. repens falling into the synonymy of C. arvense.

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C), pp. 370-473 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 404, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971