Andrews, C.R.P. (1904), Additions to the West Australian Flora. Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society 2(1): 37 [tax. nov.]

• Type: 'I found this species in flower on clay soil near Dundas, in October, 1903."

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 115 [secondary reference]

Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora: 119, 137 [secondary reference]

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): 248 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: here designated: PERTH 01626132; isolectotype: PERTH 01626124

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): 248 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Commersonia craurophylla (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Rulingia tratmanni C.R.P.Andrews orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Commersonia craurophylla (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

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