Gnidia pinifolia Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 358. 1753.

"Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 2831.

Lectotype (Rogers in Rogers & Spencer in Taxon 55: 485. 2006): [icon] " Rapunculus foliis nervosis linearibus, floribus argenteis, non galeatis " in Burman, Rar. Afric. Pl.: 112, t. 41, f. 3. 1739. - Epitype (Rogers in Rogers & Spencer in Taxon 55: 486. 2006): South Africa. Western Cape Province, Cape Peninsula, slopes of mountains above Clovelly, ca. 400ft, 24 Sep 1983, P. Goldblatt 6953 (MO-3116540).

Generitype of Gnidia Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 150. 1929).

Current name: Gnidia pinifolia L. ( Thymelaeaceae).