Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 688 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Aethiopia."

Brown, R. in Britten, J. (1906), Plantae introductae vicinitatis Portus Jackson, in Introduced Plants at Sydney, 1802-4. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 44: 235 [secondary reference]

Bates, D.M. (1969), Gentes Herbarum; Occasional Papers on the Kinds of Plants 10: 327 [basionym]

basionym of: Anisodontea capensis (L.) D.M.Bates legitimate

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