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): 8 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In tropical Australia."

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 165 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 27 [secondary reference]

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

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

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 48 [secondary reference]

common name: Copper-plant [n/a]

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 653 [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Polycarpa spirostylis Kuntze orth. var.

Bakker, K. (1957), Revision of the Genus Polycarpaea (Caryoph.) in Malaysia. Acta Botanica Neerlandica 6: 50-51 [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (1 December 1977), Polycarpaea (Caryophyllaceae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 1(1): 57 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Tropical Australia, Mueller (MEL, holo; K, iso)"

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 98 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2: 228 [secondary reference]

common name: Copper Plant [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 76, 77 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea synandra F.Muell. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea synandra F.Muell. legitimate

Cowie, I.D. (14 June 1994), Three new species, a new name and notes on Australian Polycarpaea (Carophyllaceae). Nuytsia 9(3): 330-331 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Polycarpon spirostyle (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea synandra F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea synandra var. densiflora Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea burtonii F.M.Bailey legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpon synandrus (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea spirostylis var. rosulans Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea spirostylis var. burtonii (F.M.Bailey) Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea spirostylis var. intricata Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea spirostylis var. intercedens Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea glabra C.T.White & W.D.Francis legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea gamopetala Berhaut legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea spirostylis subsp. compacta Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea spirostylis subsp. glabra (C.T.White & W.D.Francis) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea spirostylis subsp. densiflora (Benth.) Pedley legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Polycarpaea spirostyles Benth. orth. var. orthographic variant: Polycarpa spirostylis Kuntze orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Polycarpon spirostyle (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea synandra F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea synandra F.Muell. var. synandra legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea burtoni F.M.Bailey orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea burtonii F.M.Bailey legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpa synandra Kuntze orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Polycarpon synandrus (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea spirostylis var. rosulans Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea spirostylis var. intricata Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea spirostylis var. intercedens Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea spirostylis var. burtonii (F.M.Bailey) Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycarpaea gamopetala Berhaut legitimate

• APC Comment: Varietal rank not recognised in NT.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

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