Richard, A. in Lesson, A. & Richard, A. (1832), Essai d'une Flore de la Nouvelle-Zelande. Voyage de Decouvertes de l'Astrolabe. Botanique 1: 329 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Crescit ad oram sylvarum Novae-Zealandiae, non procul à littore arenoso, in détroit de Cook, hâvre de l'Astrolabe."

Haussknecht, H.C. (1884), Monographie der Gattung Epilobium: 295 [secondary reference]

Raven, P.H. & Raven, T.E. (1976), The genus Epilobium (Onagraceae) in Australasia: a systematic and evolutionary study. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 216: 161-165, Figs 74, 75 (map) [secondary reference]

• Type: "Edge of forest not far from Observation Beach, inside Adele Island (grid reference NZMS 1, Sheet S9, 430670 [="havre de l'Astrolabe"]), Marlborough Sounds, Marlborough, New Zealand, 17-21 January 1827, A. Lesson (P)."

Thompson, J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Onagraceae. Flora of Australia 18: 243 [secondary reference]

• Text: "Recorded for Australia by C.Haussknecht, Monogr. Epilobium 295 (1884) but not occurring here, see P.H.Raven & T.E.Raven, op. cit. 161-165 [i.e. D.S.I.R. Bull. 216 (1976)]."

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