Hippomane glandulosa Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1191. 1753.

"Habitat in America calidiore." RCN: 7304.

Lectotype (Croizat in J. Arnold Arbor. 24: 176. 1943): [icon] "Tithym. arbor American. Mali Medicae fol. amplioribus tenuissime crenatis, succo maxime venenato" in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 229, f. 8. 1692; Almag. Bot.: 369. 1696. - Typotype: Herb. Sloane 98: 111 (BM-SL) .

Current name: Sapium glandulosum (L.) Morong ( Euphorbiaceae).

Note: See detailed discussion and illustrations of types by Kruijt & Zijlstra (in Taxon 38: 320-325, f. 1-3. 1989) and by Kruijt (in Biblioth. Bot. 146: 44. 1996).