Hooker, J.D. (17 October 1856), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 1(3): 231 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Merkusia hookeri de Vriese legitimate

Hooker, J.D. (28 July 1857), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 1(4): t. LXVII [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 90-91 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Merkusia hookeri de Vriese legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 85 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 88 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 103 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 206 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 35, 195 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 367 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 403 [secondary reference]

common name: Creeping Fan Flower [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 133 [secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1992), Scaevola. Flora of Australia 35: 333 [secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1992), Scaevola. Flora of Australia 35: 135, Fig. 56, Map 171 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Merkusia hookeri de Vriese legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Lobelia hookeri (de Vriese) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Dist.: SA, NSW, Vic, Tas

Carolin, R.C. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Goodeniaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 469 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Goodeniaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 610, Fig. 118d [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Merkusia hookeri de Vriese legitimate common name: Creeping Fan-flower [n/a]

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 50 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Merkusia hookeri de Vriese legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Lobelia hookeri (de Vriese) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scaevola hookeri F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Scaevola hookeri F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud.

• APC Dist.: SA, NSW, Vic, Tas

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