Mueller, F.J.H. von (October 1859), Report on the Plants Collected During Mr. Babbage's Expedition into the North West Interior of South Australia in 1858. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly 3(1): 9 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "On Hooker's Creek. Sturt's Creek, and near the sources of the Victoria River."

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 167 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 28 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 51 [basionym]

basionym of: Polycarpon involucratum (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 234 [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (1 December 1977), Polycarpaea (Caryophyllaceae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 1(1): 55 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Sturt's Creek and Upper Victoria River, Mar. 1856, Mueller (MEL, holo; K, iso?)"

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 76 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 17 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Caryophyllaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 144-145, Fig. 38E [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D. (14 June 1994), Three new species, a new name and notes on Australian Polycarpaea (Carophyllaceae). Nuytsia 9(3): 330 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Sturt's Creek and Upper Victoria River, March 1856, F. Mueller (MEL 49074) lecto. nov."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Polycarpa involucrata Kuntze orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Polycarpon involucratum (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [secondary reference]

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