Erythrina compacta hort. ex W.Bull, Cat. New Beautiful Rare Pl.: 4. 1871, nom. nud.; Carriere and Andre , Rev. Hortic.: 348. 1882, nom. nud.

Guedes-Oliveira, Ramon, Fortuna-Perez, Ana Paula, Pederneiras, Leandro Cardoso & Mansano, Vidal de Freitas, 2023, Erythrina L. (Phaseoleae, Papilionoideae, Leguminosae) of Brazil: an updated nomenclatural treatment with notes on etymology and vernacular names, PhytoKeys 232, pp. 1-43 : 1

8. Erythrina compacta hort. ex W.Bull, Cat. New Beautiful Rare Pl.: 4. 1871, nom. nud.; Carriere and Andre, Rev. Hortic.: 348. 1882, nom. nud.

≡ Erythrina compacta W.Bull ex K.Koch, Wochenschr. Vereines Beförd. Gartenbaues Konigl. Preuss. Staaten 14(20): 159. 1871, nom. nud.

Notes.

Bull (1871) briefly described the aesthetic characteristics of a cultivated plant named E. compacta by horticulturists. Later in the same year, Koch (1871) mentioned the specimen cited by Bull, but only repeated his description. It was later also described by Carrière and André (1882), who observed that the specimen was just a more compact cultivated variety of E. crista-galli . According to Article 38 of the ICN ( Turland et al. 2018), a name cannot be effectively published using a description of purely aesthetic features, which is the case for all three publications related to this name, thus all of them are excluded here as nomen nudum.