Heisteria Jacquin, Enum. Pl. Cari.: 4. 1760
- =Rhaptostylum HUMB. & BONPL. in Pl.AEquin. 2: tab. 125. 1808
- =Hesiod(i)a VELL. in Fl. Flum. 4: 176. 1825
- =Acrolobus KLOTZSCH, Verhandl. Akad. Wiss. Berl.: tab. 3. 1856
- =Raptostylus POST & O. KTZE. in Lexicon Gen. Phaner. 4: 477. 1904
- =Phanerocalyx S. MOORE in Journ. Bot. 59: 244. 1921