Bridelia cinnamomea Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 273. 1887. B. griffithii Hook.f., l. c. 272. 1887; C.E.Parkinson, Forest Fl. Andaman Isl. 234. 1923; Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. in J. Econ. Taxon. Bot., Addit. Ser. 9: 34. 1992. Type: Malacca, Griffith K.D. 4883 (K - Lectotype - n. v., CAL); South Andaman, Kurz s. n. (K - n. v.).

Dressler (Blumea 41: 307 - 308. 1996) excluded the syntype material of Kurz from Andamans. He did not include Andamans while citing the distribution of the species. Chakrabarty & Balakrishnan (1992) had already mentioned that the occurrence of the species in the Andaman Islands requires clarification through the study of the Kurz’s material.