Monnina, an herbaceous to arborescent genus endemic to the New World, comprises about
150 species distributed from the southwestern USA (Blake 1924) to the southern Cone of South
America (Freire-Fierro & Pastore 2008). As a result of floristic (Freire-Fierro in press) and
phylogenetic studies of Monnina (Freire-Fierro et al. unpubl. data), it was realized that one of the
Colombian species was described earlier in a different genus, Hebeandra Bonpl., and I publish here a
new combination based on the earlier name.