Diosma oppositifolia Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 198. 1753.

"Habitat ad Caput b. Spei." RCN: 1600.

Lectotype (Williams in J. S. African Bot. 40: 276. 1974): [icon] " Spiraea Africana foliis cruciatim positis " in Commelin, Hort. Med. Amstelaed. Pl. Rar.: 1, t. 1. 1706.

Generitype of Diosma Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 134. 1929).

Current name: Diosma oppositifolia L. ( Rutaceae).

Note: See also notes by Wijnands (Bot. Commelins: 185. 1983).