In this brief paper a new combination Duthiea brachypodlium (P. Candargy) Keng & Keng f. is here
published. Its basionym Triavenopsis brachypodium P. Candargy is found to be left unknown for more than
sixty-five years since its publication in 1897-99. Other synonyms of the genus Duthiea and of this species
are also given in the present paper.