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• Type: (not designated).

Labillardière, J.J.H. de (September 1805), Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen 1(9-10): 69 [secondary reference]

Steudel, E.G. von (1840), Nomenclator Botanicus Edn. 2, 1(3): 275 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Canthium parviflorum Lam.

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 420 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 75 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Psydrax Gaertn. legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Plectronia L. nom. rej.

Schumann, K.M. in Engler, H.G.A. & Prantl, K.A.E. (ed.) (July 1891), Rubiaceae. Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien IV, 4(61-62): 91-92 [basionym]

basionym of: Plectronia sect. Canthium (Lam.) K.Schum. legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 172 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 245 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Plectronia L. nom. rej.

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 355 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 288 [secondary reference]

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

Marsden, C.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Rubiaceae (except Gardenia). Flora of Central Australia: 283 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Rubiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 340-341 [secondary reference]

James, T.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Canthium. Flora of New South Wales 3: 498-499 [secondary reference]

Koch, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Canthium. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 906 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 437 [secondary reference]

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