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: 285 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Hab. Hobart Town and Circular Head; Gunn;– v.v.n."

Domin, K. (1921), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 572 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Urtica incisa Poir. legitimate

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 639 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Urtica incisa Poir. legitimate

Chew, W.-L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1989), Urticaceae. Flora of Australia 3: 70 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Urtica incisa Poir. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Urtica incisa Poir. legitimate

Grosse-Veldmann, B., Conn, B.J. & Weigend, M. (2016), Weeding the nettles IV: A redefinition of Urtica incisa and allies in New Zealand and Australia, including the segregation of two new species Urtica sykesii and U. perconfusa. Phytotaxa 245(4): 253 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "(here designated):—[AUSTRALIA. Tasmania.] Urtica incisa Poir. Urtica lucifuga n.sp. V.D. Land [Van Diemen´s Land], “541”, Gunn s.n. (K 000351867!); Isolectotype: “541” [Gunn s.n.], Urtica incisa Poir. Urtica lucifuga n.sp. common—chiefly in damp shady ravines and creeks [?illegible] V. D. Land (K 000351868!).

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