Gentiana exacoides Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 1: 332. 1762.

"Habitat ad Cap. b. spei." RCN: 1875.

Type not designated.

Original material: [icon] in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 275, f. 4. 1694; Almag. Bot.: 94. 1696; [icon] in Seba, Locupl. Rer. Nat. Thes. 1: 35, t. 22, f. 7. 1734; [icon] in Burman, Rar. Afric. Pl.: 208, t. 74, f. 5. 1739.

Current name: Sebaea exacoides (L.) Schinz ( Gentianaceae).

Note: Marais & Verdoorn (in Dyer & al., Fl. Southern Africa 26: 190. 1963) stated "Type: Cape, Hermann " but it is unclear what element may have been intended.