Callisia repens (N.J. Jacquin) Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 1: 62. 1762.

"Habitat in Americae meridionalis udis depressis umbrosis." RCN: 357.

Basionym: Hapalanthus repens Jacq. (1760) .

Lectotype (Howard, Fl. Lesser Antilles 3: 430. 1979): [icon] " Hapalanthus repens " in Jacquin, Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist.: 11, t. 11. 1763.

Current name: Callisia repens (Jacq.) L. ( Commelinaceae).