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: 464, bis [tax. nov.]

• Type: "George Town; Gunn."

Miquel, F.A.W. (1856), Stirpes Novo-Hollandas a Ferd Mullero collectas determinavit. Nederlandsch Kruidkundig Archief 4(1): 112 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Asperula oligantha var. muscosa F.Muell. nom. inval., pro syn.

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 445 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(80): 187 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Asperula oligantha F.Muell. nom. illeg.

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 71 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 276 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rubiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 630, Fig. 122i [secondary reference]

common name: Mossy Woodruff [n/a]

Thompson, I.R. (5 January 2009), A revision of Asperula and Galium (Rubiaceae: Rubiaceae) in Australia. Muelleria 27(1): 69-70, Fig. 8 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Vic, Tas

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 72 [secondary reference]

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