Gross, H. (1913), Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 49: 347 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Australia: leg. ST. ELOY D'ALTON n. 4(0); Lake Buloke, Jun. 1892, fl. O (C. Walter) Donald Victoria (sine collectore). – Herb. Melbourne."

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 230 [secondary reference]

common name: Spiny Lignum [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 176 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Polygonaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 286 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Polygonaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 284, Fig. 56m-n [secondary reference]

common name: Spiny Lignum [n/a]

Wilson, K.L. (31 July 1996), A new subspecies in Muehlenbeckia horrida (Polygonaceae) from Western Australia. Nuytsia 11(1): 134 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Lake Buloke, Victoria, June 1892, C. Walter (lecto: B ex MEL, female)

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Polygonaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 286 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Muhlenbeckia horrida H.Gross orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, NSW, Vic

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

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

common name: Spiny Lignum [n/a]

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]

Schuster, T.M., Wilson, K.W. & Kron, K.A. (2011), Phylogenetic relationships of Muehlenbeckia, Fallopia, and Reynoutria (Polygonaceae) investigated with chloroplast and nuclear sequence data. International Journal of Plant Sciences 172(8): 1061 [basionym]

basionym of: Duma horrida (H.Gross) T.M.Schust. legitimate

Parker, C.M. (10 March 2015), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2014. Nuytsia 25: 21 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Duma horrida (H.Gross) T.M.Schust. legitimate

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