Delima sarmentosa Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 1076. 1759.

["Habitat in Zeylona."] Gen. Pl., ed. 5: Appendix (1754). RCN: 3877.

Lectotype (Stearn, Four Suppl. Linnaean Publ.: 93. 1959; Hoogland in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 42. 1993): Herb. Hermann 2: 19, No. 205, lower left specimen (BM-000621572) .

Current name: Tetracera sarmentosa (L.) Vahl ( Dilleniaceae).

Note: Hoogland (in Reinwartial 2: 190. 1953) treated D. s (p) armentosa as a synonym of Tragia scandens L. (= Tetracera scandens (L.) Merr.) but this was based on the erroneous assumption that the type of D. sarmentosa was the unannotated 683.1 (LINN). In 1959, Stearn typified the name using material in Herb. Hermann 2: 19, and Hoogland (1993) subsequently restricted this choice to one of the three specimens on the page. This material belongs not to Tetracera scandens, however, but to a different species, Tetracera asiatica (Lour.) Hoogl., which is now correctly known as Tetracera sarmentosa (L.) Vahl, a change subsequently taken up by Wadhwa (in Dassanayake & Clayton, Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 10: 117. 1996).