| Name | Bombax ceiba Linnaeus |
| Authorship | Linnaeus |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Bombax Linnaeus |
| Contains | Bombax ceiba var. leiocarpum A. Robyns |
| Citation | 1753 Sp. Pl. 1: 511 |
| Holdings | 24 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Bombax ceiba Linnaeus |
| Identification made in | [no date] (24) |