Since the legitimate and illegitimate names of Andean Monnina published by Kunth had been
widely used, Eriksen (1996b) proposed the conservation of the illegitimate names. However, her
proposal was rejected (Brummit 1999; Nicolson 1999a, 1999b) and in publishing a treatment of
Polygalaceae for Flora of Ecuador, Eriksen et al. (2000) provided the necessary replacement names
for the illegitimate names used in Ecuador. An illegitimate name, M. phytolaccifolia for the
Colombian species has been generally used until now, and I propose the following new combination
to resolve this problem