Cassine maurocenia Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 269. 1753.

"Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 2141.

Lectotype (Archer & Van Wyk in Bothalia 28: 8. 1998): [icon] " Frangula sempervirens, folio rigido subrotundo " in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 1: 146, t. 121, f. 147. 1732 (see p. 125).

Current name: Maurocenia frangula Mill. ( Celastraceae).