Oreocharis auricula (S.Moore) C.B. Clarke (1883: 64) .

Basionym:— Didymocarpus auriculus Moore (1875: 229) .

Homotypic synonym:— Perantha auricula (S.Moore) Pellegrin (1926: 873) .

Heterotypic synonyms:— Chirita sericea H.Lév. & Vaniot in Léveillé (1906: 428), non Ridley, Didymocarpus sericeus Léveillé (1906: 427), non Ridley, Oreocharis sericea Léveillé (1911a: 329) .

Heterotypic synonyms:— Oreocharis esquirolii Léveillé (1911b: 447), non Léveillé (1911a: 329), Oreocharis leveilleana Fedde (1911: 64) .

Distribution:— China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan).

Notes:—Referred to Oreocharis sect. Stomactin by Pan (1987), Wang et al. (1990) and Li & Wang (2004). Léveillé (1911b) erroneously gave two different species the same name, Oreocharis esquirolii . The mistake was realised and corrected soon afterwards (Fedde 1911).