Recent studies on Canthium revealed that the genus is polyphyletic. Subsequently, Canthium sensu stricto (ss) was re-delimited to species having paired supra-axillary spines, which led to the reinstatement of various genera in the Vanguerieae such as Keetia, Psydrax and Pyrostria. This raised questions on the generic affiliations of Philippine Canthium species as most of its members lacked spines. In an effort to revise the Philippine Canthium, the endemic spineless Canthium subsessilifolium was collected to ascertain its generic affiliation within the tribe using plastid (trnL-F region) and nuclear (ITS region) markers. The majority-rule consensus tree of combined data sets showed a wellsupported clade of the whole Vanguerieae (PP= 1.00). Interestingly, C. subsessilifolium was nested within the robustly supported Pyrostria clade (PP= 1.00). Morphological similarities of C. subsessilifolium with Pyrostria further supported our molecular results. Therefore, a new combination is here provided: Pyrostria subsessilifolia (Merr.) Arriola & Alejandro. This study establishes for the first time the existence of Pyrostria in the Philippines.