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

• Type: "Habitat in America meridionali."

Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (1792), Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique 1, 1(2): 272 [basionym]

basionym of: Hedyotis corymbosa (L.) Lam. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 74 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 125 [secondary reference]

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

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 534-535 [secondary reference]

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

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: 306 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Hedyotis corymbosa (L.) Lam. legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 261 [secondary reference]

Verdcourt, B. in Polhill, R.M. (ed.) (27 April 1976), Rubiaceae (Part 1). Flora of Tropical East Africa: 308 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "based on Oldenlandia humilis hyssopifolia Plumier, Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera : 42, t. 36 (1703); probably a specimen from Martinique collected by Plumier now no longer in existence."

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Rubiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 323 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Hedyotis corymbosa (L.) Lam. legitimate

Koch, B.L. & Halford, D.A. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Hedyotis. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 915 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Hedyotis corymbosa (L.) Lam. legitimate

Halford, D.A. (9 September 1992), Review of the genus Oldenlandia L. (Rubiaceae) and related genera in Australia. Austrobaileya 3(4): 690 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Hedyotis corymbosa (L.) Lam. legitimate

• APC Comment: Infraspecific rank not recognised on CoI or ChI by D.J.Du Puy and I.R.H.Telford, Fl. Australia 50: 394 (1993).
• APC Dist.: WA, CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Orchard, A.E. (1993), Rubiaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 394, 396 [secondary reference]

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 404: 24 [secondary reference]

Jessup, L.W. (22 April 2002), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 2 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Hedyotis corymbosa (L.) Lam. legitimate

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Hedyotis corymbosa (L.) Lam. legitimate

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