Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 416 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown."

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

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

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 306 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 260 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 155 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 72 [secondary reference]

Reynolds, S.T. & Forster, P.I. (21 December 2005), A taxonomic revision of Tarenna Gaertn. and Triflorensia S.T.Reynolds (Rubiaceae: Ixoroideae: Pavetteae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 7(1): 40 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Northern Territory. Cavern [Chasm] Island, off Groote Eylandt, 14 January 1803, R. Brown 3445 (lecto [here designated]: BM; isolecto: K, CANB, MEL).

Reynolds, S.T. & Forster, P.I. (21 December 2005), A taxonomic revision of Tarenna Gaertn. and Triflorensia S.T.Reynolds (Rubiaceae: Ixoroideae: Pavetteae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 7(1): 40 [basionym]

basionym of: Tarenna pentamera (Benth.) S.T.Reynolds legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Tarenna pentamera (Benth.) S.T.Reynolds legitimate

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