Xeranthemum spinosum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 859. 1753.

"Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 6201.

Lectotype (Hilliard & Burtt in Jarvis & Turland in Taxon 47: 369. 1998): [icon] " Xeranthemum ramosum, foliolis simplicibus, capite spinoso " in Burman, Rar. Afric. Pl.: 182, t. 67, f. 3. 1739.

Current name: Dicoma spinosum (L.) Druce ( Asteraceae).

Note: Hilliard & Burtt (in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 82: 256. 1981) reproduce the Burman type plate.