Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 119 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 55 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 403 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Hedyotis L. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1881), Plants of North-Western Australia. Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 9 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 142 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Anotis DC. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 237 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 534 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Named by Plumier in 1703 after Henrik Bernhard Oldenland, a Danish naturalist who travelled in South Africa and died there about the end of the 17th century."

Hitchcock, A.S. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists: 125 [secondary reference]

• Type: Oldenlandia corymbosa L.

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 795 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Named by Plumier in 1703 after Henrik Bernhard Oldenland, a Danish naturalist who travelled in South Africa and died there about the end of the 17th century."

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 189 [secondary reference]

Halford, D.A. (9 September 1992), Review of the genus Oldenlandia L. (Rubiaceae) and related genera in Australia. Austrobaileya 3(4): 686 [secondary reference]

pro parte taxonomic synonym: Hedyotis L. legitimate

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Orchard, A.E. (1993), Rubiaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 394 [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Oldenlandia. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 178 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 598 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised)

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [secondary reference]

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