Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 12(94): 23 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Prope flumen Menilyalya, partem septemtrionalem sinus orarii Shark-Bay versus; J. Forrest."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 140 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 95 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 151 [secondary reference]

Barker, R.M. (12 September 1986), A taxonomic revision of Australian Acanthaceae. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 9: 173-174 APC [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Forrest s.n., 1882, Menilyalya River, north of Shark Bay (MEL 601760; isolectotypes: (MEL 601759, K)."

• APC Dist.: WA

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Dicladanthera glabra R.M.Barker legitimate by Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 95

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