Meisner, C.D.F. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1845), Polygoneae. Plantae Preissianae 1(4): 623 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In arenosis umbrosis sylvae prope oppidum Perth, d. 12. Maj. 1839. Herb. Preiss. No. 1353, specim. masc. (Specim. masc. et fem. vidi in coll. Drummond sine No.)."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 31 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 33 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 67 [secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Polygonaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 112 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: WA

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Muhlenbeckia polybotrya Benth. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Muhlenbeckia polybotrya Benth. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Polygonum polybotryum F.Muell. nom. inval., pro syn.

• APC Dist.: WA

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