Asparagus capensis Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 314. 1753.

"Habitat ad Caput b. Spei." RCN: 2470.

Lectotype (Obermeyer & Immelman in Leistner, Fl. Southern Africa 5(3): 23. 1992): [icon] " Asparagus aculeatus triplice spina" in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 78, f. 3. 1691; Almag. Bot.: 54. 1696. - Voucher: Herb. Sloane 95: 108 (BM-SL); see p. 32.

Current name: Asparagus capensis L. ( Liliaceae / Asparagaceae).

Note: Jessop (in Bothalia 9: 44. 1966) treated Plukenet material in Herb. Sloane as the holotype but this was not studied by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name.