Caesalpinia crista Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 1: 544. 1762, nom. illeg.

"Habitat in Jamaica." RCN: 2999.

Type not designated.

Original material: [icon] in Plumier in Burman, Pl. Amer.: 57, t. 68. 1756; [icon] in Plumier, Codex Boerhaavianus (University Library, Groningen).

Current name: Peltophorum brasiliense (L.) Urb. ( Fabaceae: Caesalpinioideae).

Note: This name has a different diagnostic phrase name, and synonymy, from C. crista L. (1753), and is a later, illegitimate, homonym.