The Linnaean herbarium in London holds a specimen matching the
description with the name Polymnia bidentis with a note abyssinica. Another description
by Cassini (1821) was Heliopsis platyglossa, probably based on samples of Bruce.
Eight years later, Cassini (1829) realized that Heliopsis platyglossa and Polymnia
abyssinica were identical and designated a new name, Guizotia abyssinica Cass. The
name Guizotia is from the French historian François Pierre Guillaume Guizot