Justicia assurgens Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 850. 1759.

["Habitat in Jamaica."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 1: 23 (1762). RCN: 124.

Lectotype (Daniel in Breedlove, Fl. Chiapas 4: 29. 1995): [icon] " Justicia herbacea assurgens, ad alas alternas nodos & summitates florida; foliis paucioribus ovatis petiolis longis incidentibus" in Browne, Civ. Nat. Hist. Jamaica: 118, t. 2, f. 1. 1756.

Current name: Dicliptera sexangularis (L.) Juss. ( Acanthaceae).