Psychotria kirkii Hiern

POWO follows these authorities in synonymising this name:

• Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Psychotria punctata.]

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

• Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Psychotria kirkii.]
• Lejoy, J., Ndjele, M.-B. & Geerinck, D. (2010). Catalogue-flore des plantes vasculaires des districts de Kisangani et de la Tshopo (RD Congo). Taxonomania. Revue de Taxonomie et de Nomenclature Botaniques 30: 1-307. [Cited as Psychotria kirkii.]
• Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mt. Mulanje, Malawi. Scripta Botanica Belgica 34: 1-199. [Cited as Psychotria kirkii.]
• Timberlake, J.R., Bayliss, J., Alves, T., Francisco, J., Harris, T., Nangoma, D. & de Sousa, C. (2009). Biodiversity and Conservation of Mchese Mountain, Malawi. Report produced under the Darwin Initiative Award 15/036: 1-71. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Psychotria kirkii.]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Bremek. in Journal of Botany 71: 280 (1933), pro parte.
• De Wild., Pl. Bequaert. 2: 379 (1924).
• Garcia in Mem. Junta Invest. Ultramar., sér. 2, 6: 42 (1959).
• Hiern in Flora of Tropical Africa 3: 206 (1877).
• K. Schum. in Die Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas und der Nachbargebiete, Theile C: 391 (1895).
• Petit in Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l'État a Bruxelles 36: 126 (1966).
• Verdc. in Kew Bulletin 30: 262 (1975).