Lobelia tenella Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 12, 2: 584; Mantissa Plantarum: 120. 1767.

"Habitat ad Cap. b. spei." RCN: 6763.

Lectotype (Phillipson in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 99: 257. 1989): Herb. Linn. No. 1051.50 (LINN) .

Current name: Wahlenbergia sp. ( Campanulaceae).

Note: Phillipson, in typifying the name, excluded it from Monopsis but stated only that it applied to an unspecified species of Wahlenbergia .