Haemanthus carinatus Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 1: 413. 1762.

"Habitat ad Cap. b. spei." RCN: 2298.

Type not designated.

Original material: none traced.

Current name: Haemanthus coccineus L. ( Liliaceae / Amaryllidaceae).

Note: Snijman (in J. S. African Bot., Suppl. 12: 96. 1984) gives this as a synonym of H. coccineus L. but says the type is unknown and possibly not preserved.