Gloriosa simplex Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 12, 2: 241; Mantissa Plantarum: 62. 1767.

"Habitat in Senegal." RCN: 2403.

Type not designated.

Original material: none traced.

Current name: Gloriosa superba L. ( Liliaceae / Colchicaceae).

Note: Field (in Kew Bull. 25: 244. 1971) treated this as a nomen incertae sedis.