Ochna mossambicensis Klotzsch

POWO follows these authorities in synonymising this name:

• Franck, A.R., Anderson, L.C., Burkhalter, J.R. & Dickman, S. (2016). Additions to the flora of Florida, U.S.A. (2010-2015). Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 10: 175-190. [Cited as Ochna atropurpurea.]

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

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192. [Cited as Ochna mossambicensis.]
• Berendsohn, W.G., Gruber, A.K. & Monterrosa Salomón, J. (2012). Nova Silva Cusatlantica. Árboles natinos e introducidos de El Salvador. Parte 2: Angiospermae - Familias M a P y Pteridophyta. Englera 29-2: 1-300. [Cited as Ochna mossambicensis.]
• Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. [Cited as Ochna mossambicensis.]
• Thulin, M. (ed.) (1993). Flora of Somalia 1: 1-493. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Ochna mossambicensis.]

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by P. Cuccuini [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Beentje, Kenya Trees, Shrubs and Lianas p. 122 (1994).
• Blundell, Wild Fl. E Afr.: 63, t. 277 (1987).
• Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees and Shrubs p. 340 (1961).
• Gilg in A. Engler, Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 33: 234, 244 (1903).
• J.P.M. Brenan, Check-lists of the Forest Trees and Shrubs of the British Empire no. 5, part II, Tanganyika Territory p. 384 (1949).
• Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 1: 88, t. 16 (1861).
• Oliv. in Flora of Tropical Africa 1: 317 (1868).
• Robson in Flora Zambesiaca 2: 233 (1963).
• Sim, For. Fl. Port. E Afr.: 28 (1909).
• Thulin, Fl. Somalia 1: 241, fig. 133 (1993).
• Vollesen in Opera Bot. 59: 25 (1980).