Hooker, W.J. (1 April 1836), Contributions towards a Flora of Van Diemen's Land. Companion to the Botanical Magazine 1(9): 275 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Mr. Gunn (n. 450.)"

Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 10 [secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. (24 October 1855), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 1(1): 43 [basionym]

basionym of: Stellaria media var. flaccida (Hook.) Hook.f. legitimate

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 158 [secondary reference]

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: 76 [secondary reference]

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Mueller, F.J.H. von (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1: 4 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 12 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Stellaria media (L.) Vill. legitimate by Hooker, J.D. (24 October 1855), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 1(1): 43

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 77 [secondary reference]

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Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 99 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Caryophyllaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 112 [secondary reference]

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Miller, C.H. & West, J.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Stellaria. Flora of Victoria 3: 40-41, Figs 1H, 3A-G, 6E [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (here designated): Common near Launceston amongst rocks where shaded, Gunn 450 (K, Herb. Hooker p.p. [LHS of the pencil line], Kew Loand Number 0589-89-5). Isolectotype: 450 very common in dense shady thickets growing under logs, etc., [Gunn] K, Herb. Hooker p.p. [LHS of the pencil line], Kew Loan Number 0589-86-7).

taxonomic synonym: Stellaria flaccida [unranked] β Hook. nom. inval.

Miller, C.H. & West, J.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Stellaria. Flora of Victoria 3: 237, Fig. 45j-k APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Stellaria media var. flaccida (Hook.) Hook.f. legitimate

• APC Dist.: SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

Doust, A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Caryophyllaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 276 [secondary reference]

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