Osmites camphorina Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 12, 2: 571. 1767.

RCN: 6569.

Neotype (Bremer in Jarvis & Turland in Taxon 47: 364. 1998): Herb. Linn. No. 1029.5 (LINN) .

Current name: Osmitopsis asteriscoides (L. ex Bergius) Less. ( Asteraceae).

Note: Although this binomial appeared first in Linnaeus’ Pl. Rar. Afr.: 24 (1760), Osmites L. was not published until 1764, and O. camphorina was consequently not validated until 1767, as noted by Bremer (in Bot. Not. 125: 40. 1972).