Mueller, F.J.H. von (July 1890), Descriptions of new Australian plants, with occasional other annotations. The Victorian Naturalist 7(3): 38 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Roebuck-Bay; W. Tepper."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1890), Neue Litteratur: Descriptions of New Australian plants, with occasional other annotations. Botanisches Centralblatt 43: 276 [secondary reference]

Tepper, J.G.O. (1893), Die flora of Roebuck Bay, Nord-West Australien. Botanisches Centralblatt 54(9): 259 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1927), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 857 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Polygala chinensis var. stenosepala (Benth.) Domin legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 244 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 106 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 68 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Polygalaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 643-644, Fig. 198C, 199F [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 166 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Polygala arvensis var. stenosepala Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polygala chinensis var. stenosepala (Benth.) Domin legitimate misapplication: Polygala chinensis L. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (May 1931), Part III. Geraniaceae–Compositae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 71 misapplication: Polygala chinensis L. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 106

• APC Dist.: WA, NT

Kerrigan, R.A. (30 April 2012), A treatment for Polygala of northern Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 25(2): 129-130, Fig. 10F (map) [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Polygala arvensis var. stenosepala Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polygala chinensis var. stenosepala (Benth.) Domin legitimate

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