Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 103 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: See F.Adema, Taxon 28 (1979) 422–423 for proposal for Conservation.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 45 [secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. in Hooker, W.J. (1847), Florae Tasmaniae Spicilegium: or, Contributions towards a Flora of Van Diemen's Land. London Journal of Botany 6: 463, bis [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 443 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 76, 142 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 173 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 257 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 3: 266 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Asperula odorata L.

Airy Shaw, H.K. & Turrill, W.B. (18 April 1928), Asperulae Australienses. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 3: 81-105 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 537 [secondary reference]

common name: Woodruff [n/a]

• Etymology: "From Latin asper, rough: alluding to the stiff hairy clothing."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 797 [secondary reference]

common name: Woodruff [n/a]

• Etymology: "From Latin asper, rough: alluding to the stiff hairy clothing."

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 357 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 274-275 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 289 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 336-338 [secondary reference]

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 223 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 188 [secondary reference]

Marsden, C.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Rubiaceae (except Gardenia). Flora of Central Australia: 281-282 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Rubiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 330 [secondary reference]

James, T.A. & Allen, W.K. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Asperula. Flora of New South Wales 3: 487 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rubiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 625 [secondary reference]

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

common name: Woodruffs [n/a]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 74 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: SA (native and naturalised), Qld, NSW (native and naturalised), ACT, Vic, Tas

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