Sapium ellipticum (Hochst.) Pax

POWO follows these authorities in synonymising this name:

• Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Shirakiopsis elliptica.]

This name was accepted following an alternative taxonomy by these authorities:

• Harris, D.J. (2002). The vascular plants of the Dzanga-Sangha Reserve, Central African Republic: 1-274. National Botanic Garden (Belgium), Meise. [Cited as Sapium ellipticum.]

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• Aubrév. Fl. For. C. Iv. 2: 80, t. 157
• Aubrév. Pl. For. Soud.-Guin. 196, t. 38, 5–8.
• Chev. Bot. 584, partly
• in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euph. 5: 253, fig. 49 (1912)

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• A. Engler & O. Drude, Die Vegetation Der Erde, IX, Pflanzenwelt Afrikas 3(2): 143 (1921).
• Battiscombe & Dale, Trees and Shrubs of Kenya Colony p. 56 (1936).
• Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees and Shrubs p. 218 (1961).
• F. W. Andr., The Flowering Plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 2: 96 (1952).
• F. White, Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia p. 204 (1962).
• J. Léon. in Flore du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi, 8: 153 (1962).
• J.P.M. Brenan, Check-lists of the Forest Trees and Shrubs of the British Empire no. 5, part II, Tanganyika Territory p. 226 (1949).
• Keay, Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 1: 415 (1958).
• Pax in A. Engler, Das Pflanzenreich IV. 147(5): 253, t. 49 (1912).
• Robyns, Flore des Spermatophytes du Parc National Albert 1: 474 (1948).
• Troupin, Fl. Pl. Lign. Rwanda: 268, t. 92.1 (1982)
• Troupin, Fl. Rwanda 2: 240, t. 73/1 (1983).
• W.J. Eggeling, Indigenous Trees of the Uganda Protectorate, ed. 2: 140 (1952).