Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 577 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v."

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 75 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 89 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 283 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 157 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 39 [secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. (12 April 1990), Nomenclatural notes and new taxa in the genus Goodenia (Goodeniaceae). Telopea 3(4): 546 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "NORTHERN TERRITORY: Carpentaria Island 5 (i.e. Morgan's Island), R.Brown, 20-21 Jan. 1803 (BM). ISOLECTOTYPES: MEL 23310, 23312, 23309,P,K."

Carolin, R.C. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1992), Goodenia. Flora of Australia 35: 237-238, map 304 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Goodeniaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 891, Fig. 276E [secondary reference]

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