Cinchona herbacea Linnaeus, Mantissa Plantarum Altera: 338. 1771, nom. illeg.

RCN: 1361.

Replaced synonym: Cinchona caribaea Jacq. (1760) .

Type not designated.

Current name: Exostema caribaeum (Jacq.) Roem. & Schult. ( Rubiaceae).

Note: An illegitimate renaming of C. caribaea Jacq. (1760), as noted by Andersson (in Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 80: 64. 1998).