Citation
PAVONIA SPINIFEX (Linnaeus) Cavanilles, Diss. 3: 133. 1787.
Hibiscus spinifex Linnaeus 1759.
Without data (lectotype: Plumier, in Burman, Pl. Amer. pl. 1. 1755). Lectotypified by Fryxell, in R. A. Howard, Fl. Less. Antill., Dicot. 2: 243. 1989.