Othonna bulbosa Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 924. 1753.

"Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 6690.

Lectotype (designated here by Nordenstam): [icon] "Jacobaeae affinis planta tuberosa, capitis bonae spei" in Breyn, Exot. Pl. Cent.: 138, t. 66. 1678.

Current name: Othonna bulbosa L. ( Asteraceae).

Note: Levyns (in J. S. African Bot. 7: 143. 1941) interpreted the name through the Breyn reference, though without explicitly referring to it as the type.