Borago orientalis Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 138. 1753.

"Habitat circum Constantinopolin." RCN: 1110.

Lectotype (Edmondson in Cafferty & Jarvis in Taxon 53: 800. 2004): Herb. Linn. No. 188.5 (LINN) .

Current name: Trachystemon orientalis (L.) G. Don ( Boraginaceae).