Nigrina viscosa Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 12, 2: 154; Mantissa Plantarum: 42. 1767.

"Habitat ad Cap. b. Spei. Burmannus." RCN: 1204.

Type not designated.

Original material: none traced.

Generitype of Nigrina Linnaeus.

Current name: Melasma scabrum P.J. Bergius ( Scrophulariaceae).

Note: According to Wijnands (in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 109: 499. 1992), an unspecified Burman specimen should probably be the type.