Blume, C.(K.)L. von (1856), Museum Botanicum Lugduno-Batavum sive stirpium Exoticarum, Novarum vel Minus Cognitarum ex Vivis aut Siccis Brevis Expositio et Descriptio 2(4): 61 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Celtis amboinensis Willd. legitimate

Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 158 [secondary reference]

Ridley, H.N. (1906), The botany of Christmas Island. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 45: 226 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 485 [secondary reference]

• Vernacular: Birula

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 216 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Trema aspera (Brongn.) Blume legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. & Murray, L.R. (1963), Poisonous Plants of the Northern Territory: 34 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 229 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Ulmaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 55 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Trema aspera (Brongn.) Blume legitimate

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1989), Ulmaceae. Flora of Australia 3: 9 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Trema tomentosa (Roxb.) H.Hara var. tomentosa legitimate by Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 158

Du Puy, D.J. (1993), Ulmaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 85 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Trema tomentosa (Roxb.) H.Hara legitimate by Ridley, H.N. (1906), The botany of Christmas Island. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 45: 226

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Trema tomentosa (Roxb.) H.Hara var. tomentosa legitimate by Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 158

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Trema tomentosa (Roxb.) H.Hara var. tomentosa legitimate by Ridley, H.N. (1906), The botany of Christmas Island. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 45: 226

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