Melanthium capense Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 1: 483. 1762, nom. illeg.

"Habitat ad Cap. b. spei." RCN: 2613.

Replaced synonym: Melanthium punctatum L. (1760) .

Type not designated.

Original material: as replaced synonym.

Current name: Onixotis punctata (L.) Mabb. ( Liliaceae / Melanthiaceae).

Note: A superfluous name for M. punctatum L. (1760) and therefore illegitimate, though it has been incorrectly used (as Androcymbium capense (L.) Krause) by recent authors such as Müller-Doblies & Müller-Doblies (in Feddes Repert. 113: 577. 2002), who also treated unspecified material in LINN (presumably either 467.4 or 467.5) as the type.