Echium laevigatum Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 916. 1759.

["Habitat ad Cap. b. spei."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 1: 199 (1762). RCN: 1124.

Lectotype (Buys & van der Walt in Taxon 45: 516. 1996): [icon] " Buglossum Africanum Echii folio, flore purpureo " in Plukenet, Almag. Mant.: 33, t. 341, f. 7. 1700.

Current name: Lobostemon fruticosus (L.) H. Buek ( Boraginaceae).