Toluifera balsamum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 384. 1753.

"Habitat in America prope Carthagenam." RCN: 3018.

Type not designated.

Original material: none traced.

Generitype of Toluifera Linnaeus, nom. rej.

Current name: Myroxylon balsamum (L.) Harms var. balsamum ( Fabaceae: Faboideae).

Note: Toluifera Linnaeus, nom. rej. in favour of Myroxylon Linnaeus filius.

Although Dillon (in Dwyer & al. in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 67: 736. 1980) indicated unseen material in BAS as type, and Rudd (in Dassanayake & Fosberg, Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 1: 432. 1980) did the same for unspecified material in L, there appears to be no extant original material for the name.