Olax gambecola Baillon in Adansonia 3: 121. 1862
- Unknown type category: Fouta Djalon, Guinée, Heudelot 715
- =Olax viridis OLIV. in Flora of Tropical Africa 1: 349. 1868
- =Olax verruculosa ENGL. in Bot. Jahrb. 17: 69. 1893
- =Olax poggei ENGL. in Notizbl. bot. Gart. Mus. Berl. 2: 285. 1899
- =Olax alliaceum DE WILD. in Ann. Mus. Congo b. 1: 33. 1903
- =Ptychopetalum nigricans DE WILD. in Ann. Mus. Congo b., 1: 34. 1903
- =Olax ubanghensis A. CHEV. in Et. Fl. Afr. Centr. 1. 1913
- =Olax minquartioïdes BAILL. ex PELLEGRIN in Mém. Soc. Linn. Norm. 26(2): 63. 1924
- =Alsodeiopsis glaberrima ENGL. ex HUTCH. & DALZ. in Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 1 1: 455. 1928
- =Olax alliacea (DE WILD.) VERMOESEN ex BOUTIQUE in Agric. 40: 158. 1937
- –Olax pyramidata A. CHEV. in Expl. bot. Afr. occ. 1: 124. 1920, nom. nud.