Date de publication : Verh. Kon. Akad. Wetensch,. Afd. Natuurk., Sect. 2, 54(5): 119. 1963.

Type : Nom nouveau au rang de variété pour Psychotria herbacea Jacq. 1760. D'après C.M. Taylor (in Tropicos): "This variety was published to include the American plants with the assumption that the typical variety is Paleotropical, however Rondeletia repens was later lectotypified on an American specimen, and the type of Psychotria herbacea is from India."