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: "Alpine situations; Lawrence, Gunn:– v.v.n."

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

basionym of: Asperula gunnii var. pusilla (Hook.f.) Benth. legitimate

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

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

Airy Shaw, H.K. & Turrill, W.B. (18 April 1928), Asperulae Australienses. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 3: 91-92 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "TASMANIA. ♂: Hampshire Hills, Feb. 1837, R. Gunn 557, 891 (type)"

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

nomenclatural synonym: Asperula gunnii var. pusilla (Hook.f.) Benth. legitimate

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

common name: Alpine Woodruff [n/a]

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 224, Fig. 282 [secondary reference]

common name: Alpine Woodruff [n/a]

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

Toelken, H.R. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Rubiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 2: 1062 [secondary reference]

James, T.A. & Allen, W.K. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Asperula. Flora of New South Wales 3: 489 [secondary reference]

• Comment: Alpine Woodruff

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

common name: Alpine Woodruff [n/a]

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

common name: Alpine Woodruff [n/a]

Thompson, I.R. (5 January 2009), A revision of Asperula and Galium (Rubiaceae: Rubiaceae) in Australia. Muelleria 27(1): 66-68, Fig. 8 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Asperula gunnii var. pusilla (Hook.f.) Benth. legitimate

• APC Dist.: NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

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

misapplied to: Asperula sp. A (A.B.Cashmore, September 1933) Toelken [n/a] by Toelken, H.R. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Rubiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 2: 1062

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]

nomenclatural synonym: Asperula gunnii var. pusilla (Hook.f.) Benth. legitimate

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