Abstract A replacement generic name, Skogea U. B. Deshmukh, is proposed for the name of the recently described genus Actinostephanus F. Wen, Y. G. Wei, and L. F. Fu (Gesneriaceae: Didymocarpoidae) segregated from Boeica C.B. Clarke, Rhynchotechum Blume, and Leptoboea Benth. because the name Actinostephanus has been recommended to be treated as a later homonym of Actinostephanos Khursevich (Bacillariophyta) by the nomenclature committee for algae.