Achras salicifolia Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 1: 470. 1762.

"Habitat in America meridionali." RCN: 2551.

Lectotype ( Gutiérrez Amaro in Greuter & al., Fl. Republ. Cuba, ser. A, 6(4): 26. 2002): [icon] "Salicis folio lato splendente, arbor, floribus parvis pallide luteis pentapetalis, e ramulorum lateribus confertim exeuntibus" in Sloane, Voy. Jamaica 2: 98, t. 206, f. 2. 1725. - Typotype: Herb. Sloane 7: 16 (BM-SL) .

Current name: Sideroxylon salicifolium (L.) Lam. ( Sapotaceae).

Note: Howard (Fl. Lesser Antilles 6: 69. 1989) and Pennington (Fl. Neotropica 52: 149. 1990) both treated material in Herb. Sloane (BM-SL) as the type. However, it was not seen by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name.