Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(2-3): 369 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In distr. Irwin pr. Champion Bay in dunis arenoso-calcareis inumbra fruticetorum (D. 3198, E. PRITZEL Pl. Austr. occ. 431) flor. m. Junio."

Blackall, W.E. & Grieve, B.J. (1956), How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the temperate regions of Western Australia 2: 355 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Rulingia cygnorum var. borealis Blackall & Grieve nom. inval.

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 545 [secondary reference]

Wilkins, C.F. (16 December 2005), Rulingia borealis, a new combination based on R. malvifolia var. borealis (Malvaceae s.l. or Sterculiaceae). Nuytsia 15(3): 518 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (here designated): M 0067106; isolecto (here designated): AD 98015068, B 100124772, W.

Wilkins, C.F. (16 December 2005), Rulingia borealis, a new combination based on R. malvifolia var. borealis (Malvaceae s.l. or Sterculiaceae). Nuytsia 15(3): 518 [basionym]

basionym of: Rulingia borealis (E.Pritz.) C.F.Wilkins legitimate

Wilkins, C.F. & Whitlock, B.A. (18 November 2011), A revision of Commersonia including Rulingia (Malvaceae s.l. or Byttneriaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 24(5): 243 [basionym]

basionym of: Commersonia borealis (E.Pritz.) C.F.Wilkins & Whitlock legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2013), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Ruelingia malvifolia var. borealis E.Pritz. orth. var.

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