The taxonomic status of Astroloba pentagona (Asphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae) and the author attribution of this name are revisited. The name is applied to an accepted species, the type of which is the type of the genus name Astroloba, which is a small genus endemic to southwestern and southeastern South Africa. In the past the authorship of the name Astroloba pentagona was sometimes in error given as “(Haw.) Uitewaal”. It is shown that when, for nomenclatural accuracy, the name A. pentagona is cited with its author attribution, it is correctly A. pentagona (Aiton) Uitewaal. Taxonomically, A. pentagona previously had been regarded as a synonym of A. spiralis, a classification that is no longer followed.