Ocotea rubriflora Mez in Jahrb. Konigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 5: 279. 1889 sec. van der Werff 2009
- =Ocotea perseifolia Mez & Donn. Sm. in Bot. Gaz. 20(1): 10. 1895 syn. sec. The Plant List 2013
- =Nectandra rubriflora (Mez) C.K. Allen in J. Arnold Arbor. 26(4): 372-373. 1945 syn. sec. The Plant List 2013