Zanthoxylum clava-herculis Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 270. 1753.

"Habitat in Jamaica, Carolina, Virginia." RCN: 7421.

Type not designated.

Original material: [icon] in Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina 1: 26, t. 26. 1730.

Generitype of Zanthoxylum Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 142. 1929).

Current name: Zanthoxylum clava-herculis L. ( Rutaceae).

Note: Porter (in Brittonia 28: 444. 1977) indicated Linnaeus’ description from Hortus Cliffortianus (1738) as the type but this is contrary to Art. 8.1.